Abstract
To familiarize readers with some of the basic features of the village of Don Daeng, where our interdisciplinary team carried out village-settled studies, and to supplement the following papers dealing with specific aspects of the village, this brief account provides background information on such topics as location and geography, climate, processes of village settlement and farmland development, changes in vocations and job opportunities, rice culture, land holding, landscape of settlement houses, eating habits and nutrition, family and kinship, land inheritance, social and administrative structures, religion and religious life, education, and communication with the outside world.
