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While the articles in this collection were written before this period of crisis

Finding Their Voice: Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State Children com/mobile/The rural, Lao speaking people of northeastern Thailand constitute over a third of the entire population of Thailand. Over the last century, this ethnically separate community has evolved from a traditional peasantry into cosmopolitan villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics. Eminent anthropologist Charles Keyes traces this evolution in detail, beginning with the failure of a Buddhist millenarian uprising in 19012 and concluding with the