Grant W Evans

Laos: Culture and Society

Laos stands at the center of mainland Southeast Asia, sharing borders with all the main states in the region including China, so that when one touches on Laos, one touches the heart of the region. This study of culture and society in Laos inevitably leads into broader issues associated with all the ...

Lao Peasants under Socialism

In this book Grant Evans focuses on Laos to analyze peasant response to agricultural collectivization. Evans challenges fundamental assumptions held by communist governments and many Marxist anthropologists about human nature and peasant societies. He also provides the first major study of rural Lao...

Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975

This fully updated edition of Red Brotherhood at War the most comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina explains why communist victory did not usher in a period of peace based on proletarian internationalism. While victorious revolutionaries in Vietnam and Laos strengthened their speci...

A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between (A Short History of Asia series)

This comprehensive and vivid history of Laos is an ideal introduction for tourists, business travelers, and students. Informative and portable, it chronicles the history of Laos from ancient times, when the dynastic states of the region waxed and waned, to the turmoil of the Vietnam War and independ...

Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975 (Studies in Contemporary Economics)

Communist revolutions in this century have suppressed existing ritual and symbolic structures and invented new ones. Armed with new flags, new national celebrations, or new school textbooks, they have attempted to reconstruct social memory. This fascinating work of political anthropology examines th...

Hong Kong: The Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis (Anthropology of Asia Series)

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Grant Evans

Grant Evans (born 3 January 1990) is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West...