Contents
FOREWORD by Liana Chua
INTRODUCTION by Paul-David Lutz and Rosalie Stolz
PART 1: ETHICS, IMMERSION AND AFFECT
CHAPTER 1 Fieldwork, literally - 'indolence', immersion and perceptions of poverty in upland Laos by Paul-David Lutz
CHAPTER 2 Ethical evaluation—and its absence—at a wake in Luang Prabang by Charles P. Zuckerman
CHAPTER 3 Embarrassment and social belonging: Pathways of participant feeling in northern Laos by Rosalie Stolz
PART 2 EXPERIENCING INFRASTRUCTURE
CHAPTER 4 The politics of dammed rivers and their futures: insights from the Nam Ou basin in northern Laos by Sumiya Bilegsaikhan Taij
CHAPTER 5 Refrigeration after relocation: What refrigerators can (not) do to improve lives in a resettled community in northwestern Laos by Floramante S. J. Ponce
CHAPTER 6 Cycling as method, train as transect: Exploring infrastructural friction and flow through mobile ethnography on the Laos-China Corridor by Jessica DiCarlo
CHAPTER 7 Closer together, but still apart: reflections on the Laos-China Railway and the (re)making of neighbour relations by Phill Wilcox
PART 3: SPIRITS, EFFICACY AND THE STATE
CHAPTER 8 Potency and phitsanu medicinal efficacy in the southern lowlands by Elizabeth M. Elliott
CHAPTER 9 'Do just enough for riid': the contemporary understanding of health and the reduction of rituals in Yrou communities by Thipphaphone Xayavong
CHAPTER 10 When new shamans enter the stage: traditional customs and ecstatic healing among the Akha by Giulio Ongaro
AFTERWORD by Sophie Chao
