Post-war Laos : the politics of culture, history and identity / Vatthana Pholsena
Imprint
Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006
Descript
xii, 255 p. : maps ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Post-war Laos: an introduction -- The awakening of ethnic identity in colonial Laos? -- Cultural order and discipline: the politics of national culture -- The origins of the Lao people: in search of an autonomous history -- An "Heroic village" -- Ethnic classification and mapping nationhood -- From inclusion to re-marginalization