Reviews

An unusual, enjoyable, thought-provoking and important book-- "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"

Kamala's book is a noteworthy, readable contribution to Buddhist studies and belongs in every university library.-- "Religious Studies Review"

What [Kamala] sets out to do, with magnificent success, is to use the (auto)biographies of ascetic monks, her own interviews and other conventional historical materials to reconstruct their lifestyle, their gradual subsumption into the nationalist culture of the Bangkok elite, and their final near-elimination through the destruction of forests which were their main habitat.-- "Times Literary Supplement"