Barend Jan Terwiel
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Barend Jan Terwiel (born November 24, 1941 in Ginneken, Netherlands ) is a Dutch - Australian anthropologist , historian and Thaiist . His publications focus on the ethnology of the Tai peoples and the Ahom , the history and culture of Thailand, and historical travelogues by Europeans on the Southeast Asian mainland.
As a military service Terwiel was used in the early 1960s in West Papua (now part of Indonesia ), which was then still held by Dutch troops. Due to lack of transport capacity, he had to wait a few days in Bangkok for the onward journey. This first coincidental stay sparked his interest in Thailand. After returning to the Netherlands, he studied at the University of Utrecht Cultural Anthropology (1965 Candidatus title completed), and in postgraduate anthropology , Pali and History of Buddhism , which he graduated in 1967 as a doctorandus . He then received a PhD scholarship to the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
For his dissertation project, he was consecrated a Buddhist monk and lived for a year in a village monastery in central Thailand, to explore the ceremonies and religious practice of Thai Buddhism from an inner perspective. In 1972 he became a Ph.D. PhD. His dissertation he revised to the now published in several editions book Monks and Magic (1st edition 1976).
From 1972 to 1974 Terwiel worked as a coordinator for the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands in volunteer training and at the same time as a lecturer in anthropology at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He was then a lecturer at the Faculty of Asian Studies of the ANU until 1991, before he was appointed professor at the Institute of Ethnology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich , where he taught until 1992.
In the 1980s, he explored in particular the language and culture of the Ahom , an ethnic group in the northeast Indian state of Assam , which comes from the family of Tai peoples , but as a result of assimilation largely abandoned their original language and the belonging to the Indo-European languages Assamese language has accepted. Terwiel succeeded in decrypting old Ahom scriptures, laying the foundation for further research into the defunct language. [1]
From 1992 until his retirement in 2007 Terwiel was the Chair of Languages and Cultures of Thailand and Laos at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg . Between 1999 and 2004 he was also Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Leiden University . From 1992 to 2006 he was co-editor of the journal Oriens Extremus . Since 2004 he is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , where he lived until the end of 2010 while working in Hamburg.
Terwiel lives in Berlin since 2011.
Publications
External Publications
Monks And Magic. An Analysis of Religious Ceremonies in Central Thailand. Curzon Press, London, 1976 (1st ed.), 1979 (2nd ed.), 1994 (3rd ed.); Reprint: White Lotus, Bangkok 2001, ISBN 974-8495-91-4 .
Field Marshal Plaek Phibun Songkhram. University of Queensland Press, 1980.
A Window on Thai History . 2nd Edition, Editions Duang Kamol, Bangkok 1989.
Through Travelers' Eyes. An approach to early nineteenth-century Thai history . Editions Duang Kamol, Bangkok 1989.
with Ranoo Wichasin: Tai Ahoms and the Stars. Three ritual texts to ward off danger . Cornell Univ., Ithaca 1992
Shan manuscripts. Pt. 1 . (List of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany, Volume 39,1). Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003.
Engelbert Kaempfer in Siam . (Engelbert Kaempfer Werke, Volume 4). Iudicium Verlag, Munich 2004.
Thailand's Political History, From the Fall of Ayuthaya to Recent Times . River Books, Bangkok, 2005. ISBN 974-9863-08-9 .
Who Destroyed Ayutthaya? In: Indian Journal of Tai Studies , Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 105-110.
The Ram Khamhaeng Inscription. The fake that did not come true. East Asia Publishing, Gossenberg 2010.
Thailand's Political History. From the 13th Century to Recent Times. River Books, Bangkok 2011.
"Siam". Ten Ways to look at Thailand's Past. East Asia Publishing, Gossenberg 2012.