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Moving mountains : ethnicity and livelihoods in highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / edited by Jean Michaud and Tim Forsyth.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Vancouver: UBC Press, c2011.Description: xvi, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780774818377 (bound)
  • 0774818379 (bound)
  • 9780774818384
  • 0774818387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Moving mountains.DDC classification:
  • 305.800959 22
LOC classification:
  • GN635.S58 M69 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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