editorial
Oliver & Jana Raendchen: PRESENT STATE, PROBLEMS AND PURPOSE OF baan-müang Studies (p. 5)
introductory article
Cam Trong: baan-müang: A CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF THE TAI SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM
(p.12)
linguistical approach
E. Afanassieva: baan AND müang AS POLYSEMANTIC EXPRESSIONS FOR TAI KEY
CONCEPTIONS (p. 27)
M. Schultze: LAAN SAANG OR LAAN SAANG? An investigation in word meanings. (p. 30)
GLOSSARY OF TAI TERMS in connection with baan-müang. compiled by O. Raendchen (p. 33)
irrigation
Vanpen Surareks: THE müang-faai-IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN NORTHERN THAILAND: historical
development and management (p. 37)
Kumiko Kato: WATER IRRIGATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE TAI IF SISHUANGPANNA (p. 49)
Roger Attwater: LIVELYHOOD, RISC AND COMMON PROPERTY: Local water resource management
in Thailand (p. 71)
Loes-Schenk Sandbergen and Outhaki Choulamany-Khamphoui: BAAN VIENGXAY:
Beautiful weaving for the weir and for subsistance. (p. 78)
administration and history
Nguyen Duy Thieu: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE TAI LÜÜ AND OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS
IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM OF müang SING (NORTHERN LAOS) (p. 93)
Pratashlata Buragohain: TRADITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION OF müang-baan
TAI AHOM (p. 103)
Jack Bilmes: TWO MODELS OF VILLAGER-OFFICIAL RELATIONSHIP IN NORTHERN THAILAND (p. 108)
cosmology and ritual
Sithiporn Na Nakhornphanom: phanjaa naak - CREATOR AND DESTROYER (p. 119)
Sandra Shamis: THE MARGINALITY OF TRADITIONAL SYMBOLOGY:
the frog and the naga in textiles of the Tai world (p. 137)
Oliver Raendchen: THE TAI lak: Ritual and socio-political function (p. 142)
Puspadhar Gogoi: RITUALS RELATED TO RICE CULTIVATION AMONG THE TAI AHOM (p. 158)
Nicola Tannenbaum: HOUSEHOLD, VILLAGES, AND POLITIES AMONG THE SHAN OF
MAEHONGSON PROVINE, NORTH-WESTERN THAILAND (p. 165)
ethnic perspectives
Nguyên Xuân Hiên: RICE CULTIVATION AND VILLAGE STRUCTURE IN NORTH VIETNAM (p. 172)
Sommai Premchit: A CULT OF THE CITY PILLAR (p. 184)
Michael Howard: TAI TEXTILES AS INDICATORS FOR MIGRATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE
BETWEEN müang AND ETHNIC GROUPS (p. 188)
translation
THE LEGEND OF THE LADY OF THE SALT. Transl. by Christian Velder and A. Katrin Velder (p. 198)
bibliography on baan-müang
book reviews
workshops on baan-müang