{"product_id":"history-memory-and-territorial-cults-in-the-highlands-of-laos-the-past-inside-the-present-9781032087382","title":"History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos: The Past Inside the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pierre Petit\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly interdisciplinary in nature, \u003ci\u003eHistory, Memory and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos \u003c\/i\u003ewill be useful to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and religious studies, as well as Asian culture and society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45241164562583,"sku":"9781032087382","price":3735.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032087382.webp?v=1769227790","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/history-memory-and-territorial-cults-in-the-highlands-of-laos-the-past-inside-the-present-9781032087382","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}