PHETCHABURI OX RACING (WUA LAN) : WOMEN' S ROLES IN MEN' S RECREATION

Abstract

Although the organization and management of ox racing in Phetchaburi Province is seemingly the men's domain, it is this scholar's asserton that women, through their roles as mothers and wives, are the actual driving forces behind this form of recreation. Through their major contributions to ox husbandry, child rearing, marriage and kinship networking as well as business dealings, women are able to gain indirect control over the men.