02103    a2200361   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001400138072001600152072001500168072001400183072001500197072001200212072001400224072001300238072001200251072001500263072002100278072002100299072002100320072002100341072001700362100001700379245009700396250000600493260003200499300001000531520120000541103208738220250317100402.0250312042021GB        79           eng    a9781032087382  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJB2thema7 aJHMC2thema7 aGTM2thema7 aNH2thema7 a1FM2bisac7 aJF2bic7 aJHMC2bic7 aGTB2bic7 aHB2bic7 a1FM2bisac7 aSOC0020002bisac7 aSOC0020102bisac7 aHIS0480002bisac7 aSOC0530002bisac7 a959.42bisac1 aPierre Petit10aHistory, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of LaosbThe Past Inside the Present  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20210630  a232 p  bThis book captures the dynamics of history, memory, and territorial cults in Houay Yong, a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier between Laos and Vietnam. By taking seriously the experiences of the villagers, it partakes in a broader movement to reintegrate highlanders and their agency into history at large. Based on comprehensive fieldwork research and the examination of colonial archives, this book makes accessible, for an English-speaking audience, untapped French archives on Laos and early publications on territorial cults written by French ethnologists. In so doing, it provides a balanced perspective, drawing from the fields of memory studies and classical historical research. Following a chronological approach stretching from the nineteenth century to the present, it extends narrative analysis through a comparative ethnography of territorial cults, a key component of the performative and material presentification of the past. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, History, Memory and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos will be useful to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and religious studies, as well as Asian culture and society.