Projectland : life in a Lao socialist model village /

"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...

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Main Author: High, Holly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021.
Series:New Southeast Asia.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Projectland
  • Who Are the Katu?
  • Welcome to Kandon, Culture Village
  • Open Defecation Free and Model Healthy Village
  • "Are We United?"
  • "Women's Preserve": Weaving and Women's Value
  • "My Children Have Eaten Only Tears": Family Dramas in Kandon
  • "You Will Reach the Katu"
  • Conclusion: The Problem with Projects.