Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village

by Holly High and High

Book Overview

In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first "liberated" parts of upland country. In a remote village of Kandon, High finds that although socialism has declined significantly as an economic model, it is ascendant and thriving in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888685
• ISBN13: 9780824888688
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"