Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Drugs and sometimes to their disadvantage

and sometimes to their disadvantage

is the first study to assess the post-conflict democratization process in Cambodia in a systematic and in-depth empirical way

”—VALERIE MATSUMOTO

Benda Award from the Association of Asian Studies in 1995

Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Drugs and sometimes to their disadvantageEdited by Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha, and Kwanchewan Buadaeng Except on tourist brochures, the indigenous peoples of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China (Yunnan) are the least visible, and most excluded, of citizens. All these countries have used similar strategies to classify, include, or exclude minority peoples from the project of nationalism. Understanding the cultural and economic trajectories of key minorities such as the Dai,