Research Catalog

Title

Engaging Asia : essays on Laos and beyond in honour of Martin Stuart-Fox / edited by Desley Goldston.

Publication

Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldston, Desley
• Stuart-Fox, Martin, 1939-
• NIAS Press, publisher.

Description

xxiv, 478 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Long regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than richer and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that in Lao studies there is a greater potential for individual scholars to make significant contributions to their field. One such scholar is Australia's Martin Stuart-Fox, in honour of whom this festschrift has been produced .... The volume is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos all make significant contributions to Lao studies. These range from the writing of Lao prehistory in Laos, to early Lao-Thai relations, from French colonial archaeology to medical practices and gun-boat diplomacy, from the 'invention' of Laos as a modern state to its revolutionary transformation and present politics"--Back cover.

Series Statement

NIAS studies in Asian topics / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies ; 67

Uniform Title

NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 67.

Subjects

• Stuart-Fox, Martin, 1939-
• Laos > Politics and government
• Laos > Civilization
• History
• Laos > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English.

Contents

Martin Stuart-Fox : evolution of a worldview / Jessica Harriden -- On writing volume one of The history of Laos / Souneth Phothisane -- The half millenium quandary : establishing the Ayutthaya-Lan Xang frontier, 1357-1827 / Pheuiphanh and Mayoury Ngaosrivathana -- The La Grandière, 1894-1910 : a French naval presence on the Upper Mekong / Kennon Breazeale -- The birth of French research into the prehistory of Laos / Lia Genovese -- Nurse Khamphanh and his dead horse : the practice of biomedical science in early twentieth century Laos / Kathryn Sweet -- The invention of French Laos / Geoffrey Gunn -- Laos in the 60s / Tim Page -- The Lao Long of Cambodia : ethnic Lao in the Cambodian revolutions / Martin Rathie -- Marxist Leninist ideology drove the Lao revolution / Desley Goldston -- Mobilizing hearts and minds : reconciliation politics in Laos / Soulatha Sayalath -- Photographing Laos / Steve Northup -- The ethno-religious identity of the Tai people in Sipsong Panna and its resurgence in recent manuscripts / Volker Grabowsky -- An embassy from Banten at the Court of Charles II / Sarah Tiffin -- Tonkinese migrant labour in Cambodia : a coolie history / Margaret Slocomb -- Decentralization in Vietnam : resolving central-provincial relations / Timothy McGrath -- What is the first jhāna? : the central question in Buddhist meditation theory / Roderick S. Bucknell -- Biological and cultural evolution : a proper analogy / Juan Ramón Álvarez.

Call Number

JFE 19-4670

ISBN

• 9788776942540
• 8776942546
• 9788776942533
• 8776942538

LCCN

2019339177

OCLC

1089259175

Title

Engaging Asia : essays on Laos and beyond in honour of Martin Stuart-Fox / edited by Desley Goldston.

Publisher

Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

NIAS studies in Asian topics / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies ; 67

NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 67.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English.

Added Author

Goldston, Desley, editor.

Stuart-Fox, Martin, 1939- honoree.

NIAS Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4670