Laos : culture and society / edited by Grant Evans
Imprint
Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 1999
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xi, 313 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Geography & history: From buffer state to crossroads state ; Towards a new Laos ; Women, space, and history -- Diasporic Lao & ethnicity: Elites in exile ; Ethnic change in highland Laos ; Lue of Muang Sing ; Apprentice ethnographers: Vietnam and the study of Lao minorities -- Religion & ritual: Royal relics ; Women's power and theravada Buddhism -- Language & literature: Lao as a national language