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Abhisit Vejajiva, 214–15 Accelerated Rural Development Program, 54, 68 administrative/legal competence, 203–5, 212–14 Agricultural Cooperative, 114 agriculture: in Ban Tiam, 67–74, 69, 242n4, 242–43nn7–9; challenges of, 112–17, 115; commercialization of, 13; credit for farmers, 51–52, 53; exports in, 38; GDP, contribution to, 45–46, 238n.30; government spending on, 50–51, 52, 210, 220–21; and inequality, 44–49, 47, 238nn27–28, 238–39nn30–31, 239n38; labor productivity in, 46–48, 47, 220, 239n38; percentage of labor force in, 45–46, 239n31; research on/extension in, 51, 69; from taxing to subsidizing of, 49–56, 81, 154, 220, 226–27; upland, 73–74. See also contract farming; garlic; rice; soybeans; tobacco ahak spirit/shrines, 97, 97–101, 104–10 AIDS epidemic, 65–66 altruism, 173 amphetamines, 213 Anan Ganjanapan, 109 ancestors, founding, 25–26 Anderson, Benedict R. O’G., 19 Anek Laothamatas, 13 Asia Foundation, 231 Asian Barometer project, 231 Asian financial crisis (1990s), 36–37, 39, 44–45, 52, 54, 212 Assembly of the Poor, 16 autonomy, 226–27 BAAC (Bank for Agriculture and Cooperatives), 51–52, 114 Baker, Chris, 16 banana project (Ban Tiam Development Group), 145–46, 152, 155–56, 160– 61, 163 Bang Chan (near Bangkok), 10–11 Bangkok: Assembly of the Poor rally in (1997), 16, 57; income/poverty in, 45, 219–20; protests in, 4–6, 205, 222 Bangkok Post, 4 267 Index Page numbers in bold italics indicate illustrations and captions. ban haw (our village), 172, 194–95, 197, 206–7 Bank for Agriculture and Cooperatives (BAAC), 51–52, 114 Ban Tiam (northern Thailand), 59–85; advocacy organizations in, 192; agricultural wages in, 83; agriculture in, 67–74, 69, 242n4, 242–43nn7–9; AIDS deaths in, 65–66; civil vs. political society in, 224–26; community development projects in, 78, 145 (see also projects); community in, 32–33; construction in, 77–78; contract farming in, 122–24, 137– 40, 142; debt in, 116, 122; demographic transformations in, 64–67; early settlers in, 64; economic diversification in, 66–67, 81–83; economy of, 31–32, 62–63; elections in, 193–94, 249n8 (see also rural constitution); elite in, 83–84; farming and agribusiness in, 31–32 (see also contract farming); government employment in, 75, 77; hill village, 102; housing in, 59– 62, 63, 65; income in, 220; inequality in, 83– 85; location/geography of, 5, 7, 59, 60, 62, 66; lower village, 64; map/ layout of, 59–60, 61; markets in, 30– 31; meditation temple, 79, 87, 158– 59; middle-income status of, 62–63, 82, 219; mountain village, 65; new village, 65; nonagricultural economy of, 74–80, 76 (table), 220, 243nn14– 15, 243n17; origin houses, 64, 89, 110; paddy fields, 67–68, 71 (see also garlic; rice); political society of, 24–33, 25; population of, 65–66; private sector in, 78–80, 243nn14– 15; productivity in, 63–64, 81–83; projects in, 29–30, 77–78, 145 (see also projects); spirit world in, 24–27, 25, 61, 89 (see also ahak spirit/shrines; Lord of the Lucky Tree; spirits); state presence in, 27– 30, 28, 64 (see also rural constitution); tourism in, 79 Ban Tiam Development Group. See banana project basic needs survey, 62, 74 beans, 119 Berlusconi, Silvio, 229 Bhumibol Adulyadej: developmental approach of, 183–84; health of, 3; power embodied in, 221–22; as a source of divine authority, 26; Thai unity under, 15; yellow associated with, 3, 87. See also sufficiency economy Bowie, Katherine A., 14–15 Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, 35 bureaucracy, 27–28, 150 Cambodia, 36, 238–39nn30–31 capitalism, 13–14, 34, 36. See also contract farming cash crop production: in Ban Tiam, 71– 73; in the dry season, 112–13; income from, 73; increase in, 8; market for, 72–73; volatility of, 63, 72. See also contract farming; garlic; soybeans; tobacco cattle, 209 caw thi (lords of the place), 101 Central World (Bangkok), 5 Chatterjee, Partha: on civil vs. political society, 223–25; on community, 188; on political society, 21–24, 31, 33, 35, 48, 229–30 Chatthip Nartsupha, 16 Chiang Mai Province, 30–32, 72, 98, 100–101, 106, 117, 120 China: agricultural labor force in, 239n31; GDP of, 36, 238n30; 268 Index [3.233.232.21] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 06:29 GMT) Thailand’s trade agreement with, 30, 115, 119, 132, 134–35, 210, 245n5 chumchon (community), 16, 33, 172, 181–82, 188. See also community citizenship, 22 city pillars, 104, 106, 109 civic...