Rice, Risk and Ritual: What Agriculture and Religion Tell Us about State-Minority Relations among the Khmu of Northern Laos

In examining state-minority relations in Southeast Asia, Scott (2009) argues that the attributes of ‘hill tribes’ are acts of political strategy designed to evade state capture. Cautioning against a binary between freedom and oppression, Jonsson (2012) calls for a historically and socially contextua...

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Main Author: Anjana Ramkumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dalhousie University Libraries 2015-09-01
Series:The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Online Access:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/8270