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Legal and Informal Land Tenures in Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jeremy H. Kemp
Jeremy H. Kemp
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University of Kent at Canterbury
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All too often the study of land tenure in agrarian states is treated either as a dimension of economic organization or, with respect to its more specifically formal characteristics, as pertaining to the sphere of law. With both approaches there is the danger of ignoring or at least underplaying the fact that the formulation and regulation of tenural arrangements is an expression of the political order of society. Paradoxically, familiarity with this idea has tended to limit its appreciation. Awareness of the ‘classic’ and explicit example of feudalism and its place in grand social theory may well direct attention away from the detailed examination of more diffuse forms of the relation between land tenure and political structures. Such a lack of interest is readily observable in the case of Thailand where the history of the relationship is both unusual and highly significant for the analysis of contemporary social change.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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