Art & Culture
| Publisher | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Sujit Wongthes |
| Year founded | 1979 |
| Country | Thailand |
| Language | Thai |
| Website | silpa-mag |
| ISSN | 0125-3654 |
Silpa Wattanatham (Thai: ศิลปวัฒนธรรม, RTGS: Sinlapa Watthanatham), known in English as Art & Culture, is a Thai history magazine and a publishing imprint of . Founded by Sujit Wongthes in 1979, the magazine popularized Thai history and opened up the field, which had previously been restricted to academic circles, to mass consumption.[1]
Writers associated with the magazine, the most prominent of which include Sujit, and , mainly argued against the established narrative of Thai history which focused on Tai immigration from southern China and instead stressed the diversity of Thailand's cultural origins.[2]
References[]
- ^ Lysa, Hong (7 April 2011). "Twenty Years of Sinlapa watthanatham: Cultural Politics in Thailand in the 1980s and 1990s". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 31 (01): 26–47. doi:10.1017/S0022463400015861.
- ^ Baker, Chris; Phongpaichi, Pasuk (2005). A History of Thailand. Cambridge University Press. p. 226]. ISBN 9780521016476.
External links[]
- Official website (in Thai)
Categories:
- 1979 establishments in Thailand
- History magazines published in Thailand
- Magazines established in 1979
- Matichon Group
- Thai-language mass media