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The paper addresses Erik Cohen’s pioneering work on tourism in Thailand, specifically his publications on the relations between Thai women and foreign (farang) men in tourist-oriented encounters. Of sociological-anthropological interest is his conceptualization of these relations as “open-ended prostitution as a skilful game of luck” based on his study of a Bangkok soi (lane) in 1981-1984, and his exploration of Thai culture in terms of ambiguity and contradiction. On the basis of recent ethnographic research in the northern Thai tourist hub of Chiang Mai and wide-ranging observations on tourism development in Thailand, we examine continuity and change in these male-female engagements since Cohen’s research, especially in the context of the increasing availability of such electronic agencies as social media, messaging, video chat, and internet dating. Whereas Cohen’s concept of ambiguity and illusion has tended to disappear from physical spaces, it seems to have resurfaced in virtual space. The complexities of host-guest relations, and particularly the interactions both within the variegated category of “guests” themselves and then between their “hostesses” are explored in terms of sites of tourism-oriented encounters in both physical and virtual space so as to deconstruct these oppositional categories which have been formative in studies of tourism.

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[ Abstract ]
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. The Neglect of Clients and the Problems of Conceptualization in the Hostess-Guest Encounter
Ⅲ. The Concept of the Bar and Bar Complex
Ⅳ. Methodology
Ⅴ. Local contextualization
Ⅵ. Hostess bars and bar girls
Ⅶ. Bar girls, networks and families
Ⅷ. Client-host roles and relations and the decline of illusion
Ⅸ. Role-play among the guests
Ⅹ. Changes in space and negotiation: from the physical to the virtual
Ⅺ. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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• Victor T. King [ Professor, Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam; Emeritus Professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds; and Professorial Research Associate, Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. ]
• J. Rotheray [ Doctoral student, University of Leeds; and affiliated researcher, the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University. ]

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• 간행물명

  수완나부미 [Suvannabhumi]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  2092-738X

• 수록기간

  ~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 309 DDC 306