| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : illustrations |
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Westview case studies in anthropology |
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Westview case studies in anthropology.
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| Contents |
List of Tables and Figures; Series Editor Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women, Livelihood, and Social Change; 1 Laos: Historical Contexts; 2 Laos: Village Contexts; 3 Family, Home, Children, and Change; 4 Making a Living from the Land: Economics, Gender, and Power; 5 Making a Living in Commerce: Textiles; 6 Gender, Ethnicity, and Development in Luang Prabang; 7 Women and Social Change Among the Lao; Glossary; References; Index |
| Summary |
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, 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, are highlighted. Ireson-Doolittle and Moreno-Black not only provide a description of life on the ground but also explore how local affairs are connected to the wider world, and how the Lao people preserve traditions while also responding to change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Women, Lao -- Social conditions
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Women, Lao -- Economic conditions
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Women, Lao -- Employment
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Sexual division of labor -- Laos
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Women in development -- Laos
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Sex role -- Government policy -- Laos
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Economic history
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Sex role -- Government policy
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Sexual division of labor
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Social conditions
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Women in development
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Women, Lao -- Social conditions
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Soziale Situation
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Wirtschaftliche Lage
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Sozialer Wandel
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Frau
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Laos -- Social conditions
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Laos -- Economic conditions
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Laos
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Laos
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moreno-Black, Geraldine
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| LC no. |
2003010968 |
| ISBN |
0786751215 |
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9780786751211 |
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