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Animist Practices
Author_Carol Ireson-Doolittle
Author_Geraldine Moreno-Black
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economic liberalization
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Ethnic Lao Women
ethnographic fieldwork methods
gender inequality research
Hmong Women
International Monetary Fund
Khmu Women
kinship systems analysis
Lao Patriotic
Lao Patriotic Front
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lao Villages
Lao Women
Laos
Laos culture
Local Women's Union
Local Women’s Union
Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang Province
Maternal Death Rate
Paddy Farming
Party Central Committee Member
Rice Mill
rural development studies
rural Lao society
rural women
social change theory
Southeast Asian anthropology
under socialism
Upland Fields
Upland Rice
Wall Hangings
women's empowerment in rural Laos
Xieng Khouang
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780813340630
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos, exploring topics of kinship and family, gender relations, households, religion, livelihood strategies, and ethnicity. In particular, the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and the responses of women to those changes, are highlighted. Ireson-Doolittle and Moreno-Black not only provide a description of life on the ground but also explore how local affairs are connected to the wider world, and how the Lao people preserve traditions while also responding to change.
CAROL J. IRESON-DOOLITTLE is Professor of Sociology at Willamette University and the author of Field, Forest, and Family: Women's Work and Tower in Rural Laos (Westview 1996). Her research and teaching interests focus on gender, development and globalization, and Asia. She first worked in Laos as a volunteer in the late 1960s, and has lived and worked in Laos as a development worker and researcher numerous times since then. GERALDINE MORENO-BLACK is a nutritional anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Her research interests focus on gender and issues of food security, nutritional status, and health. She has worked for more than 15 years in Thailand doing research in the Thai-Lao region of the Northeast (Isan) and more recently with industrial workers in the industrial area southeast of Bangkok. She and Ireson-Doolittle have begun a study of women-owned textile businesses located in Vientiane, Laos, and selling in international markets.
