- 著者
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今村 都
- 出版者
- 国立大学法人 大阪大学グローバルイニシアティブ機構
- 雑誌
- アジア太平洋論叢 (ISSN:13466224)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.24, no.1, pp.255-264, 2022 (Released:2022-03-26)
In this paper, the results of the interview about Ngan with Thai migrant workers from a rural area and traditional Ngan concept in the previous study will be compared, to reveal how capitalization has changed their Ngan concept and what traditional value remains in the word.
Ngan indicates work, objects of work, and rituals; the previous study explains this is because working in a rice field, obtain crops, and offer them in the ritual was always a series of events in traditional rural life. In other words, the Ngan was not just a personal activity to acquire wealth, but a system of redistribution to maintain the rural community.
In order to compare with the results of the previous study, the researcher conducted a total of three weeks of observation and interviewed 21 factory workers about their life history and the meaning of Ngan in a factory in Thailand.
The results of this study revealed that for contemporary migrant workers from a rural area, the context of Ngan: work, the object of work, and rituals, has become detached and more strongly indicative of wage labor, due to their geographical isolation from rural society. On the other hand, their migrant work was meant to sustain rural livelihoods through remittances to rural area and to prepare for their own rural life in the future by forming assets. Therefore, it was indicated that even today, their work is to sustain rural communities; the work is not just for individual needs. Therefore, Ngan still maintains its means “a system of redistribution to maintain rural community” though capitalization in Thailand has expanded.