"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" par…
"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" par…
"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" par…
Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
by Evans, Grant, Sihlé, Nicolas, Harris, Elizabeth J., Gayley, Holly, Kawanami, Hiroko, Thompson, Ashley, Starling, Jessica, Travagnin, Stefania, Fisher, Gareth, Chia, Jack Meng-Tat, Bernstein, Anya, Elison, William, Ledgerwood, Judy, High, Holly, Hewamanne, Sandya, Gellner, David N., LeVine, Sarah, Tannenbaum, Nicola, McLaughlin, Levi, Guthrie, Elizabeth, Marston, John, Jerryson, Michael, Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee, Ferguson, Jane M., MCMAHAN, DAVID L., Berkwitz, Stephen C., Nelson, John K., Baird, Ian G., Bell, Corey L., Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee, Caple, Jane E., Craig, Sienna, Emmrich, Christoph, Farrelly, Paul J., Friedrich, Daniel G., Galmiche, Florence, Gamburd, Michele R., Graf, Tim, Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Amy, Jacoby, Sarah H., Johnson, Irving Chan, Kent, Daniel W., Kerekes, Susanne Ryuyin, Krawengit, Tongthida, Lee, Jun-Youb (JY), Leider, Jacques P., Letizia, Chiara, Makley, Charlene, Miller, Leigh, Nichols, Brian J., Pichler, Carina, Pinthongvijayakul, Visisya, Ritzinger, Justin R., (Ruiz), Roger Casas, Scott, Gregory A., Sheravanichkul, Arthid, Surendran, Gitanjali, Terrone, Antonio, Walters, Jonathan S.
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to mon…
High's argument is based on long-term fieldwork in a village in Laos. The village was identified as poor and was the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development interventions. This book looks at how these policies were implemented on the ground, particularly at why suc…
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational respon…
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational respon…