Theoretical Consideration on Dynamic of Northeast Local Communities in Modern Context : Viewing Through Social Practice and Structure of Beliefs of Ancestral and Guardian Spirits
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The objectives of this article are 1) to raise a theorical argument on interaction of agency and social practice of beliefs on ancestral and guardian spirits of Maha Salakham local communities and vimicity. 2) To explain dynamics of northeast local communities placed in modern context. The results taken from this study ware 1) there was dialectic interaction of agency and social practice of beliefs on ancestral and guardian spirits through various forms of social practices according to changing context. 2) Belief could be an important medium in joining relationship and solidarity of local communities through constructing networks and hierarchy as localization. However; social structures and orders of networks of spirits and people who believed in these belifes were also dynamic according to changing of social context through times. A noticed focus of this article was potential existence of social structure of networks of spirits and people involved could also imply social context of northeast local communities’ contestation against intervene of state and capitalist forces. Besides; it can be said that this contestation was motivated by collective emotion of people who have encountered crisis of identity and modernity as a whole.