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

and traditional material culture

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This is a companion volume to Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region

Aliens despised and feared by their hosts

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,