Changing Lives in Laos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Lives in Laos write by Vanina Bouté. This book was released on 2017-04-21. Changing Lives in Laos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investment, and disruptions to rural life arising from improved communications and new forms of mobility within and across the borders have produced a major transformation. Alongside these changes, a group of young scholars carried out studies that document the rise of a new social, cultural and economic order. The contributions to this volume draw on original fieldwork materials and unpublished sources, and provide fresh analyses of topics ranging from the structures of power to the politics of territoriality and new forms of sociability in emerging urban spaces.
Projectland
Projectland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Projectland write by Holly High. This book was released on 2021-05-31. Projectland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first “liberated” parts of upland country. In a remote village of Kandon, High finds that although socialism has declined significantly as an economic model, it is ascendant and thriving in the culture of politics and the politics of culture. Kandon is remarkable by any account. The villagers are ethnic Kantu (Katu), an ethnicity associated by early ethnographers above all with human sacrifice. They had repelled French control, and as the war went on, the revolutionary forces of Sekong were headquartered in Kandon territories. In 1996, Kandon village moved and resettled in a plateau area. “New Kandon” has become Sekong Province’s first certified “Culture Village,” the nation’s very first “Open Defecation Free and Model Health Village,” and the president of Laos personally granted the village a Labor Flag and Medal. High provides a unique and timely assessment of the Lao Party-state’s resettlement politics, and she recounts with skillful nuance the stories that are often cast into shadows by the usual focus on New Kandon as a success. Her book follows the lives of a small group of villagers who returned to the old village in the mountains, effectively defying policy but, in their words, obeying the presence that animates the land there. Revealing her sensibility with tremendous composure, High tells the experiences of women who, bound by steep bride-prices to often violent marriages, have tasted little of the socialist project of equality, unity, and independence. These women spoke to the author of “necessities” as a limit to their own lives. In a context where the state has defined the legitimate forms of success and agency, “necessity” emerged as a means of framing one’s life as nonconforming but also nonagentive.
Lao Mien Embroidery
Lao Mien Embroidery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lao Mien Embroidery write by Ann Yarwood Goldman. This book was released on 1995. Lao Mien Embroidery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Another Quiet American
Another Quiet American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Another Quiet American write by Brett Dakin. This book was released on 2023-11-06. Another Quiet American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION In Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos, Brett Dakin takes you through the corridors of power and into the living rooms of Laos. Among many others, you'll meet Brett's boss, a wealthy general who strikes fear into the heart of all who hear his name; an aging prince pining for the French colonial past; an American pilot who left home to fight and never returned; and a new generation of Lao who have more money than they can use, but still search for happiness. It's a sympathetic yet irreverent glimpse of one of the world's few remaining communist nations - and a way of life that is fast slipping away.
Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moving Mountains write by Jean Michaud. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Moving Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mountainous borderlands of socialist China, Vietnam, and Laos are home to some seventy million minority people of diverse ethnicities. In Moving Mountains, anthropologists, geographers, and political economists with first-hand experience in the region explore these peoples' survival strategies, as they respond to unprecedented economic and political change. Although highland peoples are typically represented as marginalized and powerless, this volume argues that ethnic minorities draw on culture and ethnicity to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. This unprecedented glimpse into a poorly understood region shows that development initiatives must be built on strong knowledge of local cultures in order to have lasting effect.
