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1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking the relationship between livelihoods and ethnicity in highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / Tim Forsyth and Jean Michaud -- Economic marginalization and social identity among the Drung people of Northwest Yunnan / Stéphane Gros -- Integration of a lineage society on the Laos-Vietnam border / Steeve Daviau -- Oral histories of livelihoods and migration under socialism and post-socialism among the Khmu of Northern Laos / Olivier Évrard -- Of rice and spice : Hmong livelihoods and diversification in the Northern Vietnam uplands / Claire Tugault-Lafleur and Sarah Turner -- Hani agency and ways of seeing environmental change on the China-Vietnam border / John McKinnon -- Land reform and changing identities in two Tai-speaking districts in Northern Vietnam / Marie Mellac -- Commoditized ethnicity for tourism development in Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Rubber transformations : post-socialist livelihoods and identities for Akha and Tai Lue farmers in Xishuangbanna, China / Janet C. Sturgeon -- Conclusion : lesson for the future / Jean Michaud. |
| Summary |
This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region - they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mountain people -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.
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Mountain people. |
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Southeast Asia. |
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Social conditions. |
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Mountain people -- Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Economic conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Mountain people -- Economic conditions. |
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Mountain people -- Social conditions. |
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Bergbewohner. |
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Kulturelle Identität. |
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Minderheit. |
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel. |
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Südostasien. |
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China. |
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Vietnam. |
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Laos. |
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Minderheit. |
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Kulturelle Identität. |
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel. |
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China. |
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Südostasien. |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Michaud, Jean, 1957-
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Forsyth, Tim.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moving mountains. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010537641 (OCoLC)650755403 |
| ISBN |
0774818387 (electronic book) |
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9780774818384 (electronic book) |
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9780774818391 (electronic book) |
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0774818395 (electronic book) |
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1283335654 |
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9781283335652 |
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9780774818377 (bound) |
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0774818379 (bound) |
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