Sumet Jumsai
Auteur van Naga: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific
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- Gangbare naam
- Jumsai, Sumet
- Officiële naam
- ดร.สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา
- Geboortedatum
- 1940-02
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Thailand
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- Jumsai, Manich (son)
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- 2
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- 14
- Populariteit
- #739,559
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- 4.0
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- 1
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- 2
I would say this book is very informative in providing readers of how much water cosmology can do to our living. However, there are some missing links from time to time in the book of why such notion or imagination of water symbolism has penetrated, and still persists, in our daily living as today not many people really understand the idea behind it, let alone encode the existing traditions that directly related to water. The author claimed that there is always an urge to create cosmological models whenever there is a chance to do so, and there is a constant attraction to the water element. The book seems to convince the readers so with its tremendous fact, but the very question of why such mentality still worthwhile conserved and reproduced by the local folks begs further discussion outside the book.… (meer)