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  • Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

    by Jean Michaud, Margaret Byrne Swain, Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of ... Read more

    $210.99 CAD

  • Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples

    Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif

    by Jean Michaud, Jan Ovesen ...
    Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Chasing Traces

    History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

    by Pierre Petit, Jean Michaud, Dr. Christian C. Lentz, Magnus Fiskesjö, Dr. Vanina Bouté, Dr. Sylvia Beaud, Vatthana Pholsena, Dr. Pascale-Marie Milan, Dr. Sarah Turner0, Dr. Sarah Delisle1, Dr. Gabor Vargyas2, Ming-ke Wang3 ...
    In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Chasing Traces

    History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

    by Pierre Petit, Jean Michaud, Dr. Christian C. Lentz, Magnus Fiskesjö, Dr. Vanina Bouté, Dr. Sylvia Beaud, Vatthana Pholsena, Dr. Pascale-Marie Milan, Dr. Sarah Turner0, Dr. Sarah Delisle1, Dr. Gabor Vargyas2, Ming-ke Wang3 ...
    In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected ... Read more

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  • Frontier Livelihoods

    Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

    by Christine Bonnin, Sarah Turner, Jean Michaud ...
    Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little.The product of wide-ranging research over many ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

    Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

    by Dan Smyer Yu ...
    Series series Asian Borderlands
    The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and capital, reshape the livelihoods of communities, pulling them into global trends of modernisation and regional discourses of national belonging. ... Read more

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  • Truly Human

    Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa

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    Series series Anthropological Horizons
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  • The Mekong

    Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future

    by Milton Osborne ...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Lu Zhouxiang ...
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    by Boike Rehbein ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
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