STONES STANDING
CRITICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE SERIES
Series Editor: Beverley Butler
Part of the University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications Series, published for the Institute by Left Coast Press, Inc.
General Series Editor: Ruth Whitehouse
Founding Series Editor: Peter Ucko
The aim of this Critical Cultural Heritage Series is to define a new area of research and to produce a set of volumes that make a radical break with the existing canon of cultural heritage texts. In a fundamental shift of perspective, Jacques Derridas rallying call to restore heritage to dignity inspires both a reexamination of the core question of what constitutes cultural heritage and an engagement with the ethical issues that shape the possible futures of this research area.
The series is intended to be of transformative value in creating new agendas within cultural heritage discourse, using individual texts as building blocks. Central to the project is a realignment of cultural heritage studies through a wider scholarship committed to disrupting the Eurocentrism which underpins current theory and practice and through a contemporary politics of recognition that is concerned with articulating new, alternative or parallel characterisations of heritage value. The aim is to centre cultural heritage studies within a wider concern for the preservation of human dignity and justice and to use these alternative discourses as a resource for future action, thereby creating a proactive, responsive and just future for both cultural heritage studies and heritage practice.
Volume 11: Anna Klln, Stones Standing: Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
Volume 10: Pierre Lemonnier, Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication
Volume 9: Shaila Bhatti, Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Volume 8: Marilena Alivizatou, Intangible Heritage and the Museum: New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation
Volume 7: Charlotte L. Joy, The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: From UNESCO to Djenn
Volume 6: Layla Renshaw, Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality, and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Volume 5: Katharina Schramm, African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage
Volume 4: Mingming Wang, Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model of Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Volume 3: Dean Sully, Ed., Decolonizing Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Volume 2: Ferdinand de Jong and Michael Rowlands, Eds., Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Volume 1: Beverley Butler, Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
STONES STANDING
Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
Anna Klln
First published 2015 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
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Klln, Anna, author.
Stones standing : archaeology, colonialism, and ecotourism in northern Laos/Anna Klln.
pages cm.(Critical cultural heritage series; volume 11)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-62958-098-2 (hardback : alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-62958-100-2 (institutional eBook)ISBN 978-1-62958-101-9 (consumer eBook)
1. Megalithic monumentsLaosHouaphan (Province) 2. Antiquities, PrehistoricLaosHouaphan (Province) 3. Excavations (Archaeology)LaosHouaphan (Province) 4. EcotourismLaosHouaphan (Province) 5. Hinthang Utthayan Borannakhadi (Laos) I. Title.
GN855.L28K35 2015
959.4'03dc23
2014048557
ISBN 978-1-62958-098-2 hardback
This book was conceived, researched, and largely written as part of a Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Department for Research Cooperation (Sida/SAREC) funded research project between 2006 and 2009, when I had my academic home in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University. In those four years I spent a lot of time in Laos working in collaboration with the National Academy of Social Science. I also worked at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, and I have had the opportunity to be a visiting researcher at the Centre Culturel Sudois in Paris and in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. The book was finalised while I was working as Research Officer of the Research School of Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, which has been a most inspirational intellectual environment. I give my heartfelt thanks to students, colleagues, and friends in and around these places and institutions who have so generously contributed to the process with knowledge, disagreement, brilliant ideas, criticism, support, and friendship, all without which this book could not have been written. A special warm thanks goes to those in Laos and around Hintang who have shared their time and knowledge with me, but for reasons of integrity and security must remain anonymous here. Among colleagues and friends I want to particularly mention Lars Amrus, Anders Andrn, Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, Ing-Marie Back-Danielsson, Paul Basu, Ingrid Berg, Sophie Bergerbrant, Julie van den Bergh, Josh Berson, Shaila Bhatti, Marianne Boqvist, Bounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth, Sally Brockwell, Carol Cassidy, Christophe Caudron, Fabrice Demeter, Tony Donovan, Grant Evans, David Feingold, Peter Fogde, Tove Frambck, Lia Genovese, Peter Gillgren, Ian Glover, Mats Hallenberg, Johan Hegardt, Jenni Hjohlman, Adam Hjorthn, Cornelius Holtorf, Tongchan Inthavong, Sin Jones, Anna Karlstrm, Khamvong Bounvisay, Kanda Keosopha, Juliette van Krieken-Pieters, sa Larsson, Ian Lilley, Anders Lindstrm, Cecilia Ljung, Daniel Lwenborg, Michel Lorrillard, sa Magnusson, Anie Montigny, Eva Myrdal, Elisabeth Niklasson, Patrik Nordstrm, Panivong Norindr, Heather Peters, Khamthong Phimthongin, Rik Ponne, Janet Pontin, Beuysi Rasapone, Marion Ravenscroft, Paul Rogers, Michael Rowlands, Inga Sanner, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, Geoffrey Scarre, Helaine Silverman, Chay Sisombat, Ylva Sjstrand, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Daniel Strand, Fredrik Svanberg, Birgitta Svensson, Sarah Talbot, Susanne Theden, Catherine Turk, Joyce White, Tim Winter, Karl Zetterstrm, and the two anonymous reviewers of this book manuscript.
