Lao-English, English-Lao Dictionary and Phrasebook - 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-English, English-Lao Dictionary and Phrasebook write by James Higbie. This book was released on 2001. Lao-English, English-Lao Dictionary and Phrasebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lao is spoken in Laos and northeastern Thailand, where it is called Isan. Focusing on the dialect that is accepted as the central language of the Lao P.D.R., this is the first Lao dictionary to present the correct Vientiane pronunciation. It is designed both for travelers and those wishing to learn native pronunciation. As one of the few Lao-English dictionaries available, the English-Lao section has been expanded for those English speakers who have been seeking such a reference.
Lao for Beginners
Lao for Beginners - 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 for Beginners write by Buasawan Simmala. This book was released on 2009. Lao for Beginners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers clear, easy, step-by-step instruction, building on what has been previously learned. It also written in a brisk, interesting style using beautiful Lao script.
Mali Under the Night Sky
Mali Under the Night Sky - 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 Mali Under the Night Sky write by . This book was released on 2010-10-19. Mali Under the Night Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mali Under the Night Sky, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor book, is the true story of Laotian American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. Before the war began, Mali lived an idyllic life in a community where she felt safe and was much loved. But the coming war caused her family to flee to another country and a life that was less than ideal. What did she carry with her? She carried her memories. And they in turn carried her across the world, sharing where she is from and all that she loves with the people she meets. Terry Hong of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program’s BOOK DRAGON, giving context to Youme’s remarkable book, said, “Today, December 7, marks the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, ‘a date which will live in infamy,’… Seven decades later, infamy lives on, stealing childhoods, families, homes, lives. Now as another year comes to a close, we pray for peace … again and again … again and again … [Mali Under the Night Sky] is another hopeful, urgent prayer.” And the Midwest Book Review calls it “a soul-stirring picturebook about the difficulties faced by wartime refugees, and deserves the highest recommendation.” Youme Landowne is an energetic and joyful painter, book artist, and activist who thrives in the context of public art. Youme has lived in and learned from the United States, Kenya, Japan, Laos, Haiti, and Cuba. In all of these places, she has worked with communities and individuals to make art that honors personal and cultural wisdom, creating community murals, illustrating tiny books, and teaching poetry in schools.
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.
The Lao
The Lao - 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 The Lao write by Carol Ireson-Doolittle. This book was released on 2019-05-20. The Lao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity. In particular, it highlights the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and the responses of women to those changes. I
