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An ethnography of diviners in Buddhist Thailand reveals continuities between diviners, kings and commoners.
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This article applies Marshall Sahlin's theory of stranger kings to diviners and their clients in Bangkok. It appeals to anyone interested in kingship, divination, Thai politics, Buddhism and in the relationship between kings and commoners in contemporary societies.
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This page is a summary of: Stranger diviners and their stranger clients: Popular cosmology-making and its kingly power in Buddhist Thailand, South East Asia Research, December 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0967828x18816145.
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