Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Chapter 1 - The Archive, the Road, and the Field Between - Toward a Geography of Vietnam’s Black River Region
	Chapter 2 - With Military Precision - A Reflexive Examination of Colonial Ethnography
in Upland Tonkin
	Chapter 3 - Wa History - Agency and Victimization
	Chapter 4 - On the Rim of Hollowness - Crafting Historical Anthropology in the Lao Highlands
	Chapter 5 - Crossing Oral History and Ethnography - How Does an Anthropologist Look into the Past in a Postrevolutionary Province?
	Chapter 6 - Harnessing History - The Synergy of Oral and Written Historical Accounts in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge (Yunnan, China)
	Chapter 7 Making History While Being in History - The Histories of the Qiang and Rma
	Chapter 8 - The Vietnam War - Insights from the Lao Borderlands
	Chapter 9 - Gathering Life Stories and Oral Traditions among the Na of Southwest China
	Chapter 10 - “I Never Knew My Dad Experienced That!” - Reflections on a Collaborative Oral History Project with Hmong Youth and Elders in Upland Northern Vietnam
	Chapter 11 - History of a Life History - An Eastern Bloc European Anthropologist in “Communist” Vietnam
	Contributors
	Index