Andrew Turton Explained

Andrew Turton
Birth Place:	Bristol, England
Nationality:	British
Thesis Title:	Northern Thai Peasant Society: A Case Study of Jural and Political Structures at the Village Level and Their Twentieth Century Transformations
Thesis Url:	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33970/
Thesis Year:	1975
Discipline:	Anthropologist
Workplaces:	SOAS

Andrew Turton (193813 August 2021)^[1] was a British anthropologist who specialised on Thailand and the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia.^[2]

Life

Turton held the Chair of Anthropology and Chair of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He lived for many years in Thailand, where he did research, mainly in Northern Thailand, but also in Laos and the Chinese province of Yunnan, where the native areas of several Tai peoples lie.^[3] He lived in London until his death in 2021.^[4]

Notable works

• Matrilineal Descent Groups and Spirit Cults of the Thai-Yuan in Northern Thailand . . 60 . 2 . 1972 . 217–256 .
• Book: Thailand: Roots of Conflict . . Nottingham . Spokesman . 1978.
  • The Current Situation in the Thai Countryside . 104–142. (Also published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia. 8 (1): 104–142. 1978. .)
• Book: Thai Institutions of Slavery . Asian and African Systems of Slavery . Oxford . Blackwell . 1980 . 251–92.
• Book: History and Peasant Consciousness in South East Asia . co-edited with Shigeharu Tanabe . Osaka . National Museum of Ethnology . 1984.
  • Limits of Ideological Domination and the Formation of Social Consciousness . 19–74.
• Book: Production, Power and Participation in Rural Thailand: Experiences of Poor Farmers' Groups . Geneva . . 1987.
• Book: Southeast Asia . co-edited with John G. Taylor . Basingstoke and London . Macmillan . 1988.
• Book: Agrarian Transformation: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia . co-edited with Gillian Hart and Benjamin White . Berkeley . University of California Press . 1989.
• Book: Thai Construction of Knowledge . co-edited with Manas Chitakasem . London . School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . 1991.
• Book: Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States . editor . Richmond, Surrey . Curzon . 2000.
• Book: The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship: The McLeod and Richardson Diplomatic Missions to Tai States in 1837 . co-edited with Volker Grabowsky . Chiang Mai . Silkworm Books . 2003.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Andrew Turton (1938–2021). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chiangmai University. 16 August 2021. th.
2. Book: Hirsch. Philip. Tapp. Nicholas. Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton. Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press. 2010. 978-90-8964-249-3.
3. Web site: Prof Andrew Turton. British Museum.
4. Web site: Andrew Turton. Making Inroads. https://web.archive.org/web/20130727025728/http://www.makinginroads.org/?location_id=357&item=17. 27 July 2013.