ABSTRACT
Bangkok’s landscape is woven with religious and political imagery. Spirit houses occupy various locations throughout the city; the process of how these edifices are placed is not clearly evident to the casual observer, though … there must be some criteria. The king is portrayed in large enshrined posters that line the major intersections and the political center of the city. The major political campaigners are portrayed … on large posters, seemingly enshrined, which indicates their otherness from the average Thai … [and] the king is portrayed in lavish dress as well as more common “European” dress indicating that they are other than the common man but simultaneously of the people. This merely touches the surface of the intricate cultural and political landscape which weaves itself through the city. One such phenomenon is that there is a monk only standing area on the ferries. 1
