History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos

History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780429560514
ISBN-13 : 0429560516
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Book Synopsis History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos by : Pierre Petit

Download or read book History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos written by Pierre Petit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the dynamics of history, memory, and territorial cults in Houay Yong, a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier between Laos and Vietnam. By taking seriously the experiences of the villagers, it partakes in a broader movement to reintegrate highlanders and their agency into history at large. Based on comprehensive fieldwork research and the examination of colonial archives, this book makes accessible, for an English-speaking audience, untapped French archives on Laos and early publications on territorial cults written by French ethnologists. In so doing, it provides a balanced perspective, drawing from the fields of memory studies and classical historical research. Following a chronological approach stretching from the nineteenth century to the present, it extends narrative analysis through a comparative ethnography of territorial cults, a key component of the performative and material presentification of the past. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, History, Memory and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos will be useful to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and religious studies, as well as Asian culture and society.

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