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 ...
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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. Grant Evans is reader in anthropology at the University of Hong Kong.
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Fine. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Fine. Int erior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and brigh t. Very slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xi + 313 pages. lg 8vo. ill., maps. The first comprehensive social and cultural study of Laos in forty years. L aos stands at the center of mainland Southeast Asia. It shares borders with all the main states in the region including China, so that when one touche s on Laos, one touches the heart of the region. Any study of culture and so ciety in Laos inevitably leads into broader issues associated with all the surrounding societies and cultures concerning their origins and contemporar y developments. While all the essays in this volume take Laos as their foca l point they raise issues which overflow the boundaries of the Lao state. T hey focus on the creation of the idea of Laos and its culture, whether it b e through literature, tourism, or the activities of nationalists, thereby c ontributing to more general debates on the nature of Southeast Asian nation alism. They look at questions of minorities in Laos and issues of ethnic ch ange. And they look at Laos in its regional context, and at Lao businessmen in their new global context. Contents: From buffer state to crossroads state / Randi Jerndal & Jonathan Rigg--Towards a new Laos / Soren Ivarsson--Women, space, and history / Andrew Walker--Elites in exile / Si-ambhaivan Sisombat Souvannavong--Ethnic change in highland Laos / Grant Evans--The Lue of Muang Sing / Khampheng Thipmuntali--Apprentice ethnographers / Grant Evans--Royal relics / Ing-Britt Tr.
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