Recipient

Paul Schissel
Doctoral, Graduate Student
Anthropology

Project

C.V. Starr Scholarship

2010
Competitive Expressions: An Ethnographic Study of Thai Boxing in Northeast Thailand.

Through Thai boxing (muay Thai) in the relatively impoverished, populous rural northeast Thai region of Isan, my research asks how the movements Thai men repeat again and again establish boundaries, historical continuity and memory. More specifically, I e

Note: This award was made as a C.V. Starr Scholarship, prior to the merger of this opportunity into the Carolina Global Initiative Award.

Location

Thailand