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RMAP Projects
 Local mythology in movie "Mekong Fullmoon Party"
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Project title
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Mekong Ethnohydrological Knowledge and Cross-border Riverine Resource Management
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RMAP student
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Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
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RMAP supervisors
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Andrew Walker
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Project documents
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Project summary
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This Mekong ‘ethnohydrology’ research is aimed to open up academic space in understanding the historical background and pragmatic application of the natural and cultural-based ideology of the Mekong riverine communities through the peoples’ cosmologies and mythologies, local everyday practices, and contextual regulations regarding resource management across nation-states of Thailand and Laos. This will look at how the practical and spiritual applicability of such social ideology is at work in shaping people mentality, body of ecological knowledge, as well as their practices concerning the regulatory regime of the shared border river of the Mekong. It is an ethnical aspect this study will contribute to the existing knowledge of scientific river hydrology as to holistically understand the cultural relations and influences in the accumulation and expression of knowledge of river system.
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