Presidential Address: “The Peoples of Asia”—Science and Politics in the Classification of Ethnic Groups in Thailand, China, and Vietnam Available to Purchase

Charles Keyes ([email protected]) is Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington and Past President of the Association for Asian Studies. Among his recent works are Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (edited with Shigeharu Tanabe, 2002); “Cultural Differences, the Nation State, and Rethinking Ethnicity Theory: ‘Lessons’ from Vietnam,” (The David Skomp Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology, University of Indiana, 2001); and “The Politics of Language in Thailand and Laos” in Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, Michael E. Brown and S˘umit Ganguly, eds. (2002).