Rethinking the relationship between livelihoods and ethnicity in highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / Tim Forsyth and Jean Michaud -- Economic marginalization and social identity among the Drung people of Northwest Yunnan / Stéphane Gros -- Integration of a lineage society on the Laos-Vietnam border / Steeve Daviau -- Oral histories of livelihoods and migration under socialism and post-socialism among the Khmu of Northern Laos / Olivier Évrard -- Of rice and spice : Hmong livelihoods and diversification in the Northern Vietnam uplands / Claire Tugault-Lafleur and Sarah Turner -- Hani agency and ways of seeing environmental change on the China-Vietnam border / John McKinnon -- Land reform and changing identities in two Tai-speaking districts in Northern Vietnam / Marie Mellac -- Commoditized ethnicity for tourism development in Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain -- Rubber transformations : post-socialist livelihoods and identities for Akha and Tai Lue farmers in Xishuangbanna, China / Janet C. Sturgeon -- Conclusion : lesson for the future / Jean Michaud
Summary
This collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region - they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods
