These issues is a cluster that focuses on
the study and exploration of genetic resources, local wisdom and traditional
cultural expression of the local community in Thailand. This
cluster Includes the study of physical identity value such as Kruba (sacred monk), religious places and social
history of Lanna toward museum establishment in Chiang Mai. Several
researches focus on the restoration of language and
indigenous wisdom of ethnic groups, livelihood changes and the food regime of ethnic
community at the Mekong as an alternative development, migration of ethnic
groups in Southeast Asia and connectivity with the powerful nation. In addition, many researches explore on
the construction of knowledge spaces in multicultural society of new emerging
groups from modernization process, and the beliefs of
Ganesha cult and the symbolic economy.