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... and Changes at Local/Regional Levels . Chiang Mai , Thailand . Proschan Frank . 1997 . ‘ ’We Are All Kmhmu, Just the Same’: Ethnonyms, Ethnic Identities, and Ethnic Groups .” American Ethnologist 34 ( 1 ): 91 – 113 . Proschan Frank . 1998 . “Cheuang in Kmhmu Folklore, History, and Memory...

... implicit in the political culture of the nation-state. FRANK PROSCHAN looks at the origin myths of the Kmhmu, a highland people of northern Laos and adjacent regions, to explore indigenous conceptions of ethnicity. He finds local imaginings of ethnicity which predate the colonial encounter. In Kmhmu myths...

... on the social context of production and use. Lytou Bouapao does this for the Hmong in observing changes in textile production and use brought about by lowland living. Suksavang Simana and Elisabeth Preisig offer a fascinating combination of technical and ethnographic information regarding the use of Kmhmu...

... Nederveen . 1996 . “Varieties of Ethnic Politics and Ethnicity Discourse.” In The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power , ed. Edwin Wilmsen and Patrick McAllister . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Proschan Frank . 1997 . “ ‘We Are All Kmhmu, Just the Same...

... examination of the flood myth of the northern Laos Kmhmu highlanders, Proschan demonstrates that conceptions of ethnicity and, perhaps even more significantly, interethnic consciousness occurred prior to colonial contact. The Kmhmu's strong sense of a multiethnic society offers abstract evidence to counter...