Jungle Book: Thailand’s Politics, Moral Panic, and Plunder, 1996–2008 Selected Columns Ethnology and television advertisements that await

and television advertisements that await us in the 1990s

and Ratanakosin periods under royal patronage

In a discussion accompanied by 184 photographs and other illustrative materials

For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies

Sorajjakool encourages us to move beyond the stereotypes we hold of trafficked persons

Jungle Book: Thailand’s Politics, Moral Panic, and Plunder, 1996–2008 Selected Columns Ethnology and television advertisements that awaitChang Noi (pseudonym) The coup leader who believed he was the reincarnation of an eighteenth century king. The godfather slashed to death by a machete on the orders of his son. The party boss who taught his followers how to negotiate corruption with hand signals. The general whose political career charts the destruction of Burmese forests. Thai politics often seem wild. For a dozen years, Chang Noi (the pseudonym means Little Elephant) has been