Contents: 1. Prevailing Constraints in the Search for Durable Solutions for Refugees in Displacement along the Thai-Myanmar Border / Aungkana Kmonpetch 2. Suanklarb English School: A School for Future Bureaucrats and the Ruling Class, 1883-1897 / Arwut Teeraeak, Villa Vilaithong 3. Dhana Dhamma Tradition of the Tai Diaspora in Thailand: The Selection of the Donated Scriptures and the Role of the Tradition / Chatuporn Petchaboon 4. Ethnographic Analogy and the Archaeological Record of Northern Thailand: Insights from Mlabri Hunter-Gatherers and the Tham Lod Rockshelter Archaeofauna / Cyler Conrad 5. A Synthesis of the Major Concepts and Characteristics of Thai Buddhist Literature / Pisit Kobbun 6. New Year ?Countdown? Chanting Ceremony in Contemporary Thai Society : An Analysis of an Invented Tradition / Prasirt Runra 7. Nora Rong Khru Ritual : Roles of the Ritual in the Context of Ban Plairamai, a Siamese village in Kedah, Malaysia / Preeyarat Chaowalitprapan 8. Examining the Continuity of Chinese Cultural Characteristics of the Thai-Chinese Community in Hat Yai Through the Chinese New Year Festival / Robert Cummings 9. Bunchu Phu Norak and Resistance to Modernity /Thanayod Lopattananot