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Paperback Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok Book

ISBN: 022633161X

ISBN13: 9780226331614

Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok

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What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities' demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a century. It's a story of community versus government,...

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