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Contents

Articles

Jean Berlie

• Religion, Fengshui, and funerals of Kam speakers in Hunan Province; China

Cam Trong

• Black Tai Marriage Customs: A life long process

Vi Van An

• About names and settlement history of the Tai Groups settling in Nghe An Province (Central Vietnam)

Heike Lück

• Aspects of possession in Tai Culture

Khun Somsii

• Farangs learn Thai – To What Avail?

S. K. Borthakur & A. Gogoi

• Notes from Botanist’s records:
  • Tai Ahoms of Assam

Short Reports (with color photographs)

Oliver Raendchen

• Ban Don, a Lao Community in Southern Vietnam

Historical Texts

Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg

• Siam; das Reich des weißen Elefanten
• Vergnügungen und Volksfeste der Siamesen
• Festlichkeiten am Königshofe

Translations

Kerstin Schmidt

• Märchen der Tai Khao

Book Reviews

HANS PENTH

• A brief history of Lan Na (Rev. by Robbert A. Reijers)

D. BOUNYAVONG et al.

• INFINITE DESIGNS: The art of silk (Rev. by Ariya Withaya)

SRISAK WALLIPHODOM

• Votive Plaques in Siam (Rev. by Jana Raendchen)

JOSEF ROHRER

• Wörterbuch der Verben Deutsch-Thai (Rev. by Manfred Kummer)

Video Reviews

• Inszenierungen der Puppen-Spielgruppe Sakornata-Silapa (Rev. by Hanà Palickovà)