Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Drugs and traditional material culture

and traditional material culture

He is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney

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This volume will be essential reading to those with scholarly and activist interests in South-East Asian studies

incorporating the most up-to-date features of the interactive approach to language learning

Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Drugs and traditional material cultureEdited by Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha, and Kwanchewan Buadaeng 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,