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Barend J Terwiel
Born 1941, the third of five children of Edwin Terwiel (dentist) and his wife Anneke (nee Johanna Ida Schouten) in the southern part of the Netherlands. As a child he was called Baasje (later for friends shortened to Baas). After finishing High School, had to fulfil his national military service, during which in 1962 he was sent to (what was then called) Dutch New Guinea. The Dutch gave up that territory and during repatriation he had a chance to visit Bangkok. This inspired him later, when he studied anthropology in Utrecht University to choose Thailand as his field of interest. After his MA in Utrecht he accepted a 4-year PhD scholarship at the Australian National University, enabling him to do extensive fieldwork in a rural community in Central Thailand. His PhD dissertation was reworked as a book, Monks and Magic, that saw various reprints. For a while he found work in Amsterdam, but soon returned to Australia to take up a lectureship in the Asian Civilizations Department. There he taught Southeast Asian History, went on fieldwork in Assam, North Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia and Laos. In 1991, now Reader at the ANU, he was offered a professorship in Munich, and less than two years after that accepted the Chair of Thai and Lao Languages and Literatures in Hamburg, a position he kept till retirement in 2006.
From his first marriage resulted four daughters, and by the time he wrote this biography (in 2017) seven grandchildren had been born, all of them living in Canberra, Australia. Between 2011 and 2018 he and his wife lived in Berlin (Kreuzberg) but then moved to Bovenden (not far from Göttingen).
Supervisors: My main supervisors during the time I wrote my PhD were John Barnes, and A.L. Basham
From his first marriage resulted four daughters, and by the time he wrote this biography (in 2017) seven grandchildren had been born, all of them living in Canberra, Australia. Between 2011 and 2018 he and his wife lived in Berlin (Kreuzberg) but then moved to Bovenden (not far from Göttingen).
Supervisors: My main supervisors during the time I wrote my PhD were John Barnes, and A.L. Basham
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Based mainly on French sources, it is posed that the main destruction of the old capital took place by looting after it was abandoned.
The difficulties that nineteenth-century scholars faced when they attempted to decipher the inscription are an argument in favor of its authenticity
Reihe Gelbe Erde No. 5, Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag. 2010, pp. 116.
Further details, see http://www.reihe-gelbe-erde.de/rge/005.html
[In the 1970s it could not be foreseen that tattooing would "take off" as it did]
Based mainly on French sources, it is posed that the main destruction of the old capital took place by looting after it was abandoned.
The difficulties that nineteenth-century scholars faced when they attempted to decipher the inscription are an argument in favor of its authenticity
Reihe Gelbe Erde No. 5, Gossenberg: Ostasien Verlag. 2010, pp. 116.
Further details, see http://www.reihe-gelbe-erde.de/rge/005.html
[In the 1970s it could not be foreseen that tattooing would "take off" as it did]
The book can be ordered at: direct.order@marston.co.uk
This booklet is virtually impossible to find, so I was glad to scan it for those who understand the Dutch language and who are interested in the Buddhism as it was practised more than 40 years ago and as it can still be found.
Thai chauvinists in the 1920s and 1930s were delighted to read in Dood's account that the Thais were "older than the Chinese". In this foreword Dodd's word lists are scrutinized.
It appeared in Norman G. Owen (ed), Death and Disease in Southeast Asia, Oxford Uni Press, 1987
More details: see http://www.reihe-gelbe-erde.de/rge/009.html
I have forgotten when and where I presented this paper.
Part of a house-building text of the Assamese Tai peoples were found also among other Tais, but then also in Indonesia and the Philippines. The text may well have originated in Orissa
Central is a text, related to house-building, found among the Tai of Assam relates to four positions of a chthonic NAGA. Versions of this text were found among Tai peoples, but also as far away as Indonesia and the Philippines. All these texts appear to have spread from Orissa,
A Thai version was recently uploaded on academia.edu.