Projectland : : Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village / / Holly High.
In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first “liberated” parts of upland country....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 17 b&w illustrations, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcription and Personal Names
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1. Introduction to Projectland
- 2. Who Are the Katu?
- 3. Welcome to Kandon, Culture Village
- 4. Open Defecation Free and Model Healthy Village
- 5. “Are We United?”
- 6. “Women’s Preserve”: Weaving and Women’s Value
- 7. “My Children Have Eaten Only Tears”: Family Dramas in Kandon
- 8. “You Will Reach the Katu”
- 9. Conclusion: The Problem with Projects
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author