The person in transformation: body, mind and cultural appropriation / Shigeharu Tanabe -- Crises of the modern in northern Thailand: ritual, tradition, and the new value of pastness / Rosalind C. Morris -- Hmong Confucian ethics and constructions of the past / Nicholas Tapp -- National heroine or local spirit? The struggle over memory in the case of Thao Suranari of Nakhon Ratchasima / Charles F. Keyes -- Monuments and memory: Phaya Sihanatraja and the founding of Maehongson / Nicola Rannenbaum -- Immobile memories: statues in Thailand and Laos / Grant Evans -- Exhibition of power: factory women's use of the housewarming ceremony in a northern Thai village / Kyonosuke Hirai -- The postmodernisation of Thainess / Kaison Tejapira -- Social memory as it emerges: a consideration of the death of a young convert on the west coast in southern Thailand / Ryoko Nishii -- Remembering/silencing the traumatic past: the ambivalent memories of the October 1976 massacre in Bangkok / Thongchai Winichakul -- Social memory reconsidered / Masato Fukushima