Laos : culture and society
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Laos : culture and society
Silkworm Books, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-313)
Contents of Works
- From buffer state to crossroads state : spaces of human activity and integration in the Lao PDR / Randi Jerndal & Jonathan Rigg
- Towards a new Laos : Lao Nhay and the campaign for national "Reawakening" in Laos, 1941-45 / Soren Ivarsson
- Women, space, and history : long-distance trading in Northwestern Laos / Andrew Walker
- Elites in exile : transnational Lao culture / Si-ambhaivan Sisombat Souvannavong
- Ethnic change in highland Laos / Grant Evans
- The Lue of Muang Sing / Khampheng Thipmuntali
- Apprentice ethnographers : Vietnam and the study of Lao minorities / Grant Evans
- Royal relics : ritual and social memory in Louang Prabang / Ing-Britt Trankell
- Women's power and Theravada Buddhism : a paradox from Xieng Khouang / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr
- Books of search : the invention of traditional Lao literature as a subject of study / Peter Koret
- Lao as a national language / N.J. Enfield
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Description
Laos stands at the center of mainland Southeast Asia, sharing borders with all the main states in the region including China, so that when one touches on Laos, one touches the heart of the region. This study of culture and society in Laos inevitably leads into broader issues associated with all the surrounding societies and cultures concerning their origins and contemporary developments.
Essays focus on the creation of the idea of Laos and its culture, whether it be through literature, tourism, or the activities of nationalists, thereby contributing to more general debates on the nature of Southeast Asian nationalism. They look at questions of minorities in Laos and issues of ethnic change. And they look at Laos in its regional context, and at Lao businessmen in their new global context.
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