Title Laos : culture and society / edited by Grant Evans

Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000

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Description xi, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm Contents From buffer state to crossroads state / Randi Jerndal & Jonathan Rigg -- Towards a new Laos / Soren Ivarsson -- Women, space, and history / Andrew Walker -- Elites in exile / Si-ambhaivan Sisombat Souvannavong --Ethnic change in highland Laos / Grant Evans -- The Lue of Muang Sing / Khampheng Thipmuntali -- Apprentice ethnographers / Grant Evans -- Royal relics / Ing-Britt Trankell -- Women's power and Theravada Buddhism / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- Books of search / Peter Koret -- Lao as a national language / N.J. Enfield Notes Originally published: Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliography : pages 291-313 Subject Ethnicity -- Laos. Lao (Tai people) Lao language -- Political aspects. Lao literature. SUBJECT Laos -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074649 Laos -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074653 Laos http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128712 -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663 Laos http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128712 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 Laos http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128712 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Laos. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80128712 Author Evans, Grant, 1948- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. LC no. 99506216 ISBN 9812300880

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