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  • Les États Généraux et le 14 juillet 1789

    de Jean Michaud ...
    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Leer más

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  • Chasing Traces

    History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

    In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected ... Leer más

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  • Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples

    Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif

    Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The ... Leer más

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  • Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of ... Leer más

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  • Frontier Livelihoods

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    Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little.The product of wide-ranging research over many ... Leer más

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  • Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

    Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

    de Dan Smyer Yu ...
    Series series Asian Borderlands
    The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and capital, reshape the livelihoods of communities, pulling them into global trends of modernisation and regional discourses of national belonging. ... Leer más

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  • Truly Human

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    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa – today called Taiwan – say that their ancestors emerged in the beginning of time from Pusu Qhuni, a tree-covered boulder in the highlands. Living in the mountain forests, they observed the sacred law of Gaya, seeking equilibrium with other humans, the spirits, animals, and plants. They developed a politics in which each ... Leer más

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  • The Mekong

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  • Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

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