Laos : culture and society / edited by Grant Evans

Additional Titles:: Culture and society
Published:: Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 1999.
Physical Description:: xi, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Evans, Grant, 1948-

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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 Trankell -- Women's power and Theravada Buddhism / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- Books of search / Peter Koret -- Lao as a national language / N.J. Enfield.

Subject(s):

Laos

ISBN:

9748709043

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-313).

Source of Acquisition:

University Park copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20020409.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment

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