Table of Contents

Preface PART I Inter-Ethnic Relations in Tai Political Domains 1. Introduction to Civility and Savagery PART II Internal Histories and Comparisons Introduction 2. The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-Spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects 1885-1910 3. The Differential Integration of Hill People into the Thai State 4. Ritual Relations and Identity: Hmong and Others 5. The Politics of Cosmology: An Introduction to Millenarianism and Ethnicity among Highland Minorities of Northern Thailand 6. Akha Internal History: Marginalization and the Ethnic Alliance System PART III Thai-Malay Borderlands Introduction 7. The Historical Development of Thai-Speaking Muslim Communities in Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia 8. Emergence and Transformation of Peripheral Ethnicity: Sam Sam on the Thai-Malaysian Border PART IV Laos: A Poly-Ethnic State Introduction 9. A Princess in a People's Republic: A New Phase in the Construction of the Lao Nation 10. Nationalities Policy in Modern Laos 11. Tribal Politics in Laos 12. Tai-Ization: Ethnic Change in Northern Indo-China PART V Lanna and Neighbours Introduction 13. Autochthony and the Inthakhin Cult of Chiang Mai 14. Tai Lue of Sipsongpanna and Miiang Nan in the Nineteenth-Century 15. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Elephants in Nineteenth-Century Lanna Statecraft PART VI Postscript 16. A New Stage in Tai Regional Studies: The Challenge of Local Histories