Contribution to Book
Landscapes of Literacy: The View from a Lahu Village
Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region
(2008)
Abstract
Except on tourist brochures, the indigenous peoples of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China (Yunnan) are the least visible, and most excluded, of citizens. All these countries have used similar strategies to classify, include, or exclude minority peoples from the project of nationalism. Understanding the cultural and economic trajectories of key minorities such as the Dai, Hmong, Lahu, Akha, and Karen is critical to apprehending the construction, workings, and future of each of these nation-states, indeed of the Mekong region as a whole.
Keywords
- Lahu
Disciplines
Publication Date
2008
Editor
Prasit Leepreecha, Kwanchewan Buadaeng and Don McCaskill
Publisher
Silkworm Books
Series
Mekong Press
Citation Information
Judith M.S. Pine. "Landscapes of Literacy: The View from a Lahu Village" Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region (2008) p. 219 - 236 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/judith-pine/10/