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Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection

Bibliography for the Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection

Ayabe Tsuneo. "The Village of Ban Pha Khao, Vientiane Province." No. 14 in Laos Project Papers. Joel M. Halpern, ed. Unpublished collection.

Damrong Tayanin. 1994. Being Kammu: My Village, My Life. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Series No. 14.

Dooley, Thomas. 1960. The Night They Burned the Mountain. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy.

Evans, Grant. 2002. "Immobile Memories: Statues in Thailand and Laos" In Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. -----2002. A Short History of Laos: The Land Inbetween. Crow's Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Fisher, James Terence. 1997. Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Hafner, James A., Joel M. Halpern, and Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern. 1983. River Road Through Laos: Reflections of the Mekong. Amherst: International Area Studies Programs, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Halpern, Joel Martin. 1958. Aspects of Village Life and Culture Change in Laos. New York: Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, Inc.

• 1958. America and Laos; Two Views of Political Strategy and Technical Assistance (originally issued by Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, as a background paper, subsequently by Bell & Howell, Micro-Photo Division; successor, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor). Reprinted 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA.
• 1958. Aspects of Village Life and Cultural Change in Laos. Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, New York, 156 pages, 66 photos JMH, 23 tables (Microfilm by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, AUl-BH03296-04) (see 1964) Reprinted 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA.
• 1958. Economic Development and American Aid in Laos. illustration, 66 photos (Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, N.Y.) (see 1959; 1982, University Microfilms, AU1-BHO5296-04; reissued by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA, 1990).
• 1958. "Trade Patterns in Northern Laos," Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. l2, No. 2, pp. ll9-l24; (reprinted in Community Development Review, No. l0, pp. 42-47, and Proceedings of the ninth Pacific Congress, l957, Bangkok, l963, Vol. 3, pp. 242-245).
• 1959. America and Laos; Two Views of Political Strategy and Technical Assistance (originally issued by Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, as a background paper, subsequently by Bell & Howell, Micro-Photo Division; successor, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor. Reprinted 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA).
• 1959. "Account of an Archaeological Site in Northern Laos," Council on Old World Archaeology Survey, Area l0, Southeast Asia, No. l, pp. 2-3.
• 1959. "Economic Development and American Aid in Laos," Practical Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. l5l-l7l (1958).

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• 1960. "Capital, Savings and Credit Among Lao and Serb Peasants," Wenner-Gren Symposium on Economics and Anthropology, Paper No. 6, 28 pp. (see 1961, l964).
• 1960. "Laos and Her Tribal Problems," Michigan Alumnus Quarterly, Vol. LXVII, No. l0, pp. 59-66; reprinted in Community Development Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, l96l, pp. 5l-60; summary version in Asia Foundation Library Notes, January 3l, l96l, pp. 22-25 (Reprinted 1992, Dalley Books Service, Christiansburg, VA).
• 1960. The Role of the Chinese in Lao Society, RAND Corporation, p-2l6l, 38 pages, 5 tables; revised March l96l (based on data provide by USIS/Laos).
• 1960. "Urgent Research Tasks in Laos," Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research, (Vienna) No. 3, pp. 72-73.
• 1961. "American Policy in Laos," Michigan Alumnus Quarterly, Vol. LXVII, No. l8, pp. 213-2l9.
• 1961. "Culture Change in Laos and Serbia: Possible Tendencies toward Universal Organizational Patterns," Human Organization, Vol. 20, No. l, pp. ll-l4.
• 1961. "The Economics of Lao and Serb Peasants, A Contrast in Cultural Values," Southwest Journal of Anthropology, Vol. l7, no. 2, pp. l65-l77 (1960).
• 1961. "Observations on the Social Structure of the Lao Elite," Asian Survey, Vol. l, no. 5, pp. 25-32.
• 1961. "The Role of the Chinese in Lao Society," Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. XLIX, part l, pp. 2l-46 (1960).
• 1963. "Traditional Medicine and the Role of the Phi in Laos," Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. LXI, No. 3, pp. l9l-200.
• 1964. "Capital, Savings and Credit Among Lao Peasants," in Capital, Savings and Credit in Peasant Societies, Raymond Firth and B. S. Yamey, eds., Allen and Unwin, London, pp. 82-l03 (1960, 1961).
• 1964. Government, Politics, and Social Structure in Laos: A Study in Tradition and Innovation. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series No. 4.
• 1964. Economy and Society of Laos: A Brief Survey. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monongraph Series No. 5.
• 1964. "Laos and America -- A Retrospective View," (with Barbara Kerewsky- Halpern), South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. LXIII, No. 2, pp. l75-l87 (reprinted by Dalley Books, Christiansburg, VA, 1992).
• 1966. "Laos, Future Prospects and Their Limitations," Asian Survey, Vol. VI, No. 1, pp. 59-65.
• 1966. "Education and Nation Building in Laos," (with Marilyn Clark Tinsman), Comparative Education Review, Vol 10, No. 3, pp. 499-507.
• 1967. "Laos: Introduction," (with Peter Kunstadter), in Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities and Nations, (also published as Tribal Peoples of Laos) p. Kunstadter, ed., Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., Vol. 1, pp. 233-258, JMH Photos. Reprinted 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA.
• 1967. "Lao Rice Planting Rituals," reprinted from Economy and Society of Laos in The World of Southeast Asia, H.J. Benda and J.A. Larkin, eds., New York, Harper and Row, pp. 301-304.

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• 1969. "Laos" (with Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern), American Peoples Encyclopedia, Grolier, New York, Vol. II, pp. 252-254.
• 1969. "A Nationalist Awakening - A Young Lao Official," in Man, State, and Society in Contemporary Southeast Asia, R.C. Tilman, ed., Praeger, New York, pp. 277-286, reprinted from Government, Politics and Social Structure in Laos, (1964).
• 1970. "Some Reflections on the War in Laos, Anthropological and Otherwise, " Courrier de l'Extreme Orient, Centre d'Etude du Sud-Est Asiatique et de l'Extreme Orient, Bruxelles, publication mensuelle, 4e annee, No. 44, pp. 203-205 (see also 1971).
• 1971. A Preliminary and Partial Bibliography of Miscellaneous Research Materials on Laos with Special Reference to the Mekong Development Scheme, Plus Selected Items on Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, Centre d'Etude du Sud-Est Asiatique et de l'Extreme Orient, Bruxelles, 113 pp. (with James Hafner) see also Mekong Documentation Project, 1973, reprinted by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, Va, 1990.
• 1971. "Quelques reflexions, antropologiques et autres, sur le guerre au Laos," Syntheses (Paris-Bruxelles), avril, pp. 13-23 (see also 1970).
• 1972. "Mekong River Development Schemes for Laos and Thailand - A Hope for the Future?" Internationales Asien Forum (Munchen), Heft 1, Jahrgang' 3, January, pp. 20-35. (Also published in Courrier de l'Extreme Orient, Brussels, 1971, pp. 139-164, and in French in Problemes politiques et sociaux, articles et documents d'actualite mondiale (Paris), 16 Juin, No. 129, pp. 22-27.
• 1973. Mekong Documentation Project, United Nations Mekong Committee, ECAFE, Bangkok; reissued by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985; co-edited with James Hafner; (1971 and 1974).
• 1973. "Laos and Mekong Basin Development, A Selected Bibliography," by Joel M. Halpern, 103 pp., Mekong Documentation Project, No. 4, United Nations Mekong Committee, ECAFE, Bangkok; reissued by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985; co edited with James Hafner; (1971 and 1974), Reprinted 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA.
• 1973. "The Role of Religion in Government and Politics in Laos," in Southeast Asia, the Politics of National Integration, John T. McAlister, ed., Random House, New York, pp. 202-214 (reprinted from Government, Politics and Social Structure in Laos, 1964).
• 1992. A Bibliography of Cambodian, Hmong, Lao and Vietnamese Americans, edited by Joel M. Halpern with Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem and Sommala Khoxayo and Robin Bateman. Special Publication No.3, Asian Studies Program, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 141 pp.
• 1974. Mekong Basin Development, Laos and Thailand, Selected Bibliographies, Centre d'Etude du Sud Est Asiatique et de L'Extreme Orient, Brussels, in series Courrier de L'Extreme Orient, No. 59, 234 pp. (with James Hafner and Walter Haney, reissued 1990 by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA).
• 1983. River Road Through Laos: Reflections of the Mekong, Occasional Papers Series No. 10, Asian Studies Committee, International Area Studies Programs, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, July, 76 pp., JMH photos, (co-editor with James Hafner and Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern), "Luang Prabang to Pak Tha: A Field Trip," pp. 12-26 (Reprinted Dalley Books, Christiansburg, VA 1992).

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• 1989. The Far World Comes Near, The Kingdom and Laos and Laotian Americans, Photo catalog (reissued as Research Report Series: Special Issue, Department of Anthropology, UMass/Amherst, June).
• 1987. The Far World Comes Near: The Kingdom of Laos and Laotian Americans, Exhibit Catalog, Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House, University of Massachusetts, April 1-17, 1987; 16 pp., 20 photos (13 JMH) (with Sam Pettengill) (1989).
• 1979. The Old Man: A Biographical Account of a Lao Villager, by Fred Branfman, edited and with an introduction by JMH (with James A. Hafner), Occasional Papers Series No. 4, Asian Studies Committee, International Area Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 49 pp. (reprinted Dalley Books, Christiansburg, VA, 1992), March 1996.
• 1977. The Training of Vietnamese Communist Cadres in Laos: The Notes of Do Xuan Tao, Vietnamese Economics Specialist Assigned to the Pathet Lao in Xieng Khouang, Laos, 1968, Centre d'Etude du Sud-est Asiatique et de l'Extreme-Orient, Bruxelles, No. 66, 103 pp. (co-editor with William Turley), reprinted by Dalley Book Service, Christiansburg, VA, 1990).
• 1978. The Village of the Deep Pond, Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos, by Fred Branfman, Occasional Papers Series No. 3, Asian Studies Committee, International Area Studies Programs, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 48 p. (co-editor with James A. Hafner) Reprinted Dalley Books, Christiansburg, VA, 1992).

Kunstadter, Peter, ed. 1967. Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lewis, Judy, ed. 1992. Minority Cultures of Laos: Kammu, Lua', Lahu, Hmong, and Mien. Contributors: Damrong Tayanin & Lue Vang, Julia Elliot and members of the Lua' community, James Matisoff, Yang Dao, and Eric Crystal & Kaeota Saepham. Rancho Cordova: Southeast Asia Community Resource Center, Folsom Cordova Unified School District.

Lindell, Kristina, et al. 1982. The Kammu Year: Its Lore and Music. London: Curzon Press.

National Tourism Authority of Laos (NTAL). Undated. Moradok Lae Laeng Thong Thiaw Lao (Lao Heritage and Tourist Season). Bangkok: Samnak Phim Pheuan Chiwit.

Proschan, Frank. 1997. "We are all Kmhmu, Just the Same: Ethnonyms, Ethnic Identities, and Ethnic Groups." American Ethnologist 24 (1): 91-113.

• 2001. "Peoples of the Gourd: Imagined Ethnicities in Highland Southeast Asia." Journal of Asian Studies 60 (4): 999-1032.

Schliesinger, Joachim. 2003. Ethnic Groups of Laos. 4 vols. Bangkok: White Lotus Press.

Stuart-Fox, Martin. 1997. A History of Laos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Svada, Andrea Matles, ed. 1995. Laos: A Country Study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.

Walker, Andrew. 1999. The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.