“Tappe’s attention to the historicity, diversity, complexity and contradictions of everyday social life and livelihood stands out in the collection.”

SOJOURN

“Much more than an inventory of research on Laos, the focus on the construction of a nation-state in contemporary times, in a context of great linguistic and cultural diversity, under the aegis of an authoritarian central power, gives the work a dimension of more global scope that will be seized upon by anthropologists, historians and political scientists.”

Moussons