I think you mean the book by Sao Saimong Mangrai. Its not as
impressive or comprehensive and the title suggests. As for
your request, the entire run of the JSS is easy enough to
find. Contact the office of the Siam Society and they can sell
back issues and mail them to you. CMU library has the entire
run as does Mahasarakham Univ. library (both closer than BKK,
well, actually the train to BKK is faster than the bus to CM).
At the Siam Society Library in BKK and the Chula. library you
can pay to photocopy the issues as well for a small fee.
Student membership is also only 500 baht still I think. Its
well-worth it if you want to find SEA Studies material in
German, French, or English. Also has a nice, but small,
collection of mss. For Vickery's complete works, the Siam
Society library would be the place to look. The CKS in Phnom
Penh should have them all as well. However, I can understand
your reluctance to pay the border/visa fees to go in and out
of Laos.
Sadly, Laos is a hard place to find complete sets of anything.
I'll try to bring some next time I go to Laos.
Thanks for the report,
justin
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:34:54 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: [palistudy] misc. scholarly update from Vientiane
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
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>I'm expecting a dedicated work on Shan script and its historical
>interaction with Pali to arrive in the mail "any day now"
--it is, I
>believe, by a Shan author, and printed locally (thus, obscure).
>
>Reading various (extremely impressive) articles by Michael
Vickery
>lately, I noticed that he had written a "Part 3" to his
"Piltdown Man"
>series (i.e., not included with the collected articles in the
Siam
>Society volume on the RK inscription), with a special focus
on the
>development of orthography in Thai & Khmer epigraphy (viz.,
with a
>view to RK) and, apparently, a supplemental thesis on the
neglected
>importance of Cham script in the evolution of written Thai.
HOWEVER,
>neither the EFEO nor Michel's private collection had a copy
of the
>issue of the J.S.S. in question.
>
>I also found a copy of that work on legal texts of S.E.A.
(viz., Palic
>Dharmashastras of Burmese, Mon, Thai, and Khmer ancestry) --I
believe
>the editor of that volume briefly contributed to this list?
In any
>case, it contained several excellent articles, foremost among
them the
>editor's own contribution and also an exceedingly detailed
study by
>Vickery.
>
>My copy of Jit Phumisak's _The Real Face of Thai Feudalism_ (in
>translation) arrived from Chiang Mai (thanks to M.L., EFEO). The
>introduction by Craig J. Reynolds contains a great deal of useful
>information, however, I must confess that I find the style of the
>prose excruciating to read (and this is from someone who can
"enjoy" a
>mathematical study on epigraphic calendrical systems!).
>
>I had also my second meeting with Mme Filliozat; much useful
>information and "scholarly gossip" shared. In return for a
CD-ROM of
>materials I had given her, she offered me her various
catalogues in
>digital format --viz., a potentially priceless resource, but
one that
>I am unlikely to ever use, as I have no plans to travel to Paris,
>Taiwan, London, etc., nor even Bangkok!
>
>From a garret in Ban Haisok,
>
>E.M.
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
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