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By retaining their orally based culture through to the present day, the Kammu of northern Laos and adjacent parts of Vietnam, Thailand and China have long been recognised as a …
While the birth of any nation is always more complicated than official historiographies purport, the complex positioning of Laos at the crossroads of a wide range of historical, …
Hailed on its first publication as 'an outstanding contribution to Southeast Asian ethnography - highly recommended not only for specialists in traditional hunting and fishing but …
The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimate independence for the country was a long and uncertain process. This …
For many years, fieldwork was impossible in Laos due to the wars and then because of the overthrow of the royal power and the establishment of a revolutionary regime. Yet this …
This volume builds on the contents of I Will Send My Song. It contains Kam Raw's repertoire of social adult songs in the Kammu language, with English translations, interpretations …
Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese?In this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese …