Sanpong Village Revisited: Anan Ganjanapan’s Contribution to the Study of Agrarian Change in Northern Thailand
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Anan Ganjanapan, Ban Sanpong, agrarian change, northern ThailandAbstract
Between June 1980 and August 1981 Anan Ganjanapan carried out anthropological fieldwork in Sanpong - a village in Sanpatong district (now Mae Wang), Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. As I understand, the primary aim of Anan’s research was to study agrarian transformation of the village over a long period of time, with a focus on rural differentiation based on varying control of peasant groups over land and labour. As a foreign anthropologist I had previously studied Sanpong, conducting periodic fieldwork there on agrarian issues between September 1967 and March 1969 on agrarian issues and with a brief period of follow-up research in 1978, though my research also encompassed a comparison with the farming community of the nearby town of Ban Kat. In this article I shall summarise what I consider to be the main arguments of Anan’s research on agrarian change in Sanpong. I shall also offer some evaluation of his work, particularly in relation to my own earlier and Yos Santasombat’s later research in the same village.
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