The last book on Laos published by NIAS Press before it closed

Title:  From Tribalism to Nationalism:  The Anthropological Turn in Laos - A Tribute to Grant Evans
Edited by:  Yves Goudineau and Vanina Boute
Publisher, Year:  NIAS Press, 2022
ISBN:  9788776943035
Cost:  USD$40

This was one of the last books published on Laos by NIAS Press before its operations closed down in 2023.  Even more meaningful was that it was published in honour of Grant Evans, an Australian scholar of Lao studies who passed away in 2014.

I love these journal type publications that cover a variety of topics on Laos from different writers and researchers.  I've included the full table of contents below for those who might be interested in what the book covers.  As always the articles are insightful and detailed.

Highly recommended reading for those interested in Lao culture and history.

Table of contents

• List of Maps, Figures and Tables p.viii
• Foreword - Yves Goudineau and Vanina Boute p.xi
• Credits and Acknowledgements p.xiii

1. Language and Culture in Laos:  An Agenda for Research - N.J. Enfield p.25
2. Sociolects, Differentiation and the Integration of Lao - Boike Rehbein p.30
3. Lao Peasants Studies:  Theoretical Review and Perspectives for Anthropology - Grant Evans p.49
4. The Genesis and Demarcation of the Religious Field:  Monasteries, State Schools and the Secular Sphere in Lao Buddhism - Patrice Ludwig p.82
5. The Early Years of the Lao Revolution (1945-1949):  Between History, Myth, and Experience - Vatthana Pholsena p.103
6. The Anthropology of Southern Laos and the Origin of the Kantu Issue - Yves Goudineau p.131
7. The Case of the Brao:  Revisiting Physical Borders, Ethnic Identities and Spatial and Social Organisation in the Hinterlands of Souther Laos and Northeastern Cambodia - Ian G. Baird p.166
8. The Ruins, the 'Barbarians' and the Foreign Princess:  Heritage, Orality and Transethnic Imagery  in Northern Laos - Olivier Evrard and Chiemsisouraj Chanthaphilith p.197
9. The End of Rituals:  A Dialogue Between Theory and Ethnography in Laos - Guido Sprenger p.231
10. Buddhism and Spirit Cults Among the Phunoy of North Laos - Vanina Bouta p.256
11. Huaphanh - Revolutionary Heritage and Social Transofmrations in the 'Birthplace of Lao PDR' - Oliver Tappe p.277
12. The Ongoing Invention of a Multi-Ethnic Heritage in Laos - Yves Goudineau p.302

• References p.328
• Contributors p.375
• Colour Illustrations p.379
• Index p.383