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Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern May 1993

Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern May 1993

Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values [Book Review], Joel Halpern May 1991

Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values [Book Review], Joel Halpern

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

No abstract provided.


Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values, Joel Halpern May 1991

Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values [Book Review], Joel Halpern May 1991

Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values [Book Review], Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Laos: Politics, Economics, And Society; Laos: A Bibliography, Joel Halpern Aug 1988

Laos: Politics, Economics, And Society; Laos: A Bibliography, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Laos: Politics, Economics, And Society; Laos: A Bibliography, Joel Halpern Aug 1988

Laos: Politics, Economics, And Society; Laos: A Bibliography, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Poppies, Pipes, And People: Opium And Its Use In Laos, Joel Halpern Feb 1986

Poppies, Pipes, And People: Opium And Its Use In Laos, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Poppies, Pipes, And People: Opium And Its Use In Laos, Joel Halpern Feb 1986

Poppies, Pipes, And People: Opium And Its Use In Laos, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


River Road Through Laos: Reflections Of The Mekong, James A. Hafner, Joel M. Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern Jan 1983

River Road Through Laos: Reflections Of The Mekong, James A. Hafner, Joel M. Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Asian Language & Literature Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.


The Village Of The Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos; The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager, Joel Halpern May 1981

The Village Of The Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos; The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


The Village Of The Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos; The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager (Book Review), Joel Halpern May 1981

The Village Of The Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos; The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager (Book Review), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager, Fred Branfman Jan 1979

The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager, Fred Branfman

Asian Language & Literature Occasional Papers

This paper is a companion piece to The Village of the Deep Pond,Bari Xa Phang Meuk, Laos issued by the Asian Studies Committee in 1978 as Occasional Paper No.3. Both studies grow out of the work of Fred Branfman who resided in a village, nine kilometers from downtown Vientiane, the capital and major city of Laos. He spent approximately a year and a half in the community during 1968-69. Although he was not a trained social scientist, he was a good observer, knew the language, and had worked in U.S. government aid programs as a member of the International Voluntary …


The Village Of The Deep Pond, Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos, Fred Branfman Jan 1978

The Village Of The Deep Pond, Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos, Fred Branfman

Asian Language & Literature Occasional Papers

Fred Branfman has a long and unique perspective on the people and events which have overtaken Laos. His residence in the country has spanned some of the most turbulent and enigmatic years this small land-locked nation in mainland Southeast Asia has probably ever experienced. Since he first lived in Xa Phang Meuk between late 1967 and mid 1969 a long period of political instability and conflict has ended, at least temporarily. In the summer of 1975, just months after the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia, Laos became the last of these three former colonial states of French Indochina to …


Education And Nation-Building In Laos, Joel Halpern, Marilyn C. Tinsman Oct 1966

Education And Nation-Building In Laos, Joel Halpern, Marilyn C. Tinsman

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Education And Nation-Building In Laos, Joel Halpern, Marilyn C. Tinsman Oct 1966

Education And Nation-Building In Laos, Joel Halpern, Marilyn C. Tinsman

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Laos, Future Prospects And Their Limitations, Joel Halpern Jan 1966

Laos, Future Prospects And Their Limitations, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

This article is not an attempt to assess the contemporary (1965) situation in Laos or to deal in detail with the politics of the immediate past. Our task is, rather, to outline briefly some of the most crucial factors which will play an important role in shaping the country's future.


Laos, Future Prospects And Their Limitations, Joel Halpern Jan 1966

Laos, Future Prospects And Their Limitations, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This article is not an attempt to assess the contemporary (1965) situation in Laos or to deal in detail with the politics of the immediate past. Our task is, rather, to outline briefly some of the most crucial factors which will play an important role in shaping the country's future.


Conflict In Laos: The Politics Of Neutralization, Joel Halpern Aug 1965

Conflict In Laos: The Politics Of Neutralization, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Conflict In Laos: The Politics Of Neutralization, Joel Halpern Aug 1965

Conflict In Laos: The Politics Of Neutralization, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Laos And America: A Retrospective View, Joel Halpern Apr 1964

Laos And America: A Retrospective View, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Economy And Society Of Laos: A Brief Survey, Joel Halpern Jan 1964

Economy And Society Of Laos: A Brief Survey, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Like the preceding monograph in this series, the present study is based on field data and basic statistical materials obtained in the course of the year 1957, spent as a field representative for the American aid mission in Luang Prabang in northern Laos, and in 1959 during a second visit as a consultant to the RAND Corporation. in addition to field work, several years of intermittent research have been devoted to going through available literature ans consulting individuals who have worked in Laos.

Essentially, this is an attempt to integrate what is known about northern and central Laos from a …


Laos And America: A Retrospective View, Joel Halpern Jan 1964

Laos And America: A Retrospective View, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Economy And Society Of Laos: A Brief Survey, Joel Halpern Jan 1964

Economy And Society Of Laos: A Brief Survey, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Like the preceding monograph in this series, the present study is based on field data and basic statistical materials obtained in the course of the year 1957, spent as a field representative for the American aid mission in Luang Prabang in northern Laos, and in 1959 during a second visit as a consultant to the RAND Corporation. in addition to field work, several years of intermittent research have been devoted to going through available literature ands consulting individuals who have worked in Laos.Essentially, this is an attempt to integrate what is known about northern and central Laos from a socioeconomic …


Observations On The Social Structure Of The Lao Elite, Joel Halpern Jul 1961

Observations On The Social Structure Of The Lao Elite, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Observations On The Social Structure Of The Lao Elite, Joel Halpern Jul 1961

Observations On The Social Structure Of The Lao Elite, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


Laos Profiles, Joel Halpern Jun 1961

Laos Profiles, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Laos Profiles, Joel Halpern Jun 1961

Laos Profiles, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.


American Policy In Laos, Joel Halpern May 1961

American Policy In Laos, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

In the past years the American government has been involved in attempting to prevent Laos from becoming a Communist state. In Laos our extensive military aid and policies is manipulating the country but little is known about the effects on the Laos values.


Laotian Agricultural Statistics, Joel Halpern Apr 1961

Laotian Agricultural Statistics, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.