MEMORANDUM REGARDING DONATION OF
DIGITIZED PHOTOS OF MAE SARIANG
We, Charles F. Keyes and Elizabeth Jane Keyes, donate to the Mae Sariang Tambon Administrative Authority, a set of digitized photographs taken by us primarily in Amphoe Mae Sariang in1967-68 together with some photos take in Amphoe Mae La Noi and Amphoe Muang, Mahasarakham province. The Tambon Administrative Authority is free to use these photos for the Mae Sariang museum or for other purposes under the following stipulations:
1) When any of the photographs are used for public display including in publications, we should be acknowledged as their source;
2) Any person living in Mae Sariang should be allowed to view the photographs free of charge;
3) Any person in Mae Sariang who is or whose immediate relative is the subject of a photo should be permitted to have a copy made of the photo.
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CHARLES AND JANE KEYES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Charles and Jane Keyes first began research in Thailand in 1962 and have since undertaken many research projects in Thailand, primarily in the northeastern and northern parts of the country. They first met as graduate students at Cornell University, where Charles Keyesreceived a PhD in Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies and JaneKeyes an MA in Government and Southeast Asian Studies.
Their first field research in 1962-64 was carried out in a village in Mahasarakham province, northeastern Thailand on the relationship of a Thai-Lao village to the Thai nation-state.After taking up a faculty position in anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, the Keyes’s returned to Thailand in 1967-68 to carry out a new project on ethnic group relations, ethnohistory and religion in Mae Sariang, Mae Hong Son province. They also worked in Thailand from 1972-74, where Charles Keyes was a visiting professor at Chiang Mai University.He has subsequently been affiliated with CMU on several occasions, most recently in 2011.The Keyes’s have carried out follow-up research in Mahasarakham and Mae Sariang as well as Chiang Mai on many subsequent occasions, and Charles Keyes has also carried out field research in Laos, Vietnam, and southern China.
Charles Keyes has had a distinguished academic career. He has authored, edited or co-edited 14 books, monographs or special issues of journals and published over 80 articles. Among his works, he is perhaps best known for his The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia. He has mentored over 40 PhD students, about a third of whom are from Thailand or Vietnam. He has served as president of the American Association for Asian Studies and since 2008 has been professor emeritus of anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington.
Jane Keyes has held a position as Assistant Editor at the University of Washington for the Journal of Asian Studies, edited the English translation of Thailand and World War II by DirekJayanama, and worked for many years with programs assisting refugees primarily from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.She has also been the primary photographer in the course of Charles Keyes’ fieldwork in Thailand.Their joint long-term work has resulted in a very large collection of research materials, including photos, field notes, tape recordings, and documents, many of which since the mid-2000s have been deposited at the University of Washington Libraries archives.