Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos

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204 Index 204 Index 1975 Revolution, 3, 25, 35 Abrams, P., 107 Agamben, G., 11 Agricultural Promotion Bank, 22, 109, 110, 116 Agriculture, 25 collectivization, 21, 57, 154, 171 Aid abandonment, 178 and poverty reduction, 149, 150 See also Mutual aid Amnesty International, 188n1 Appearances, human, 187n10 Archaimbault, C., 53, 182n7 Ashikari, M., 185n4 Asia-Europe Meeting, 188n1 Assistance, lack of, 126 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), 63 Asylum seekers, 184n13, 15 Au Lao Nyay (newspaper), 153, 155 Australia banter, 70 corruption, 147 Aymonier, E., 53 Baird, I.G., 53, 57, 58, 58, 59, 54, 57, 58, 58, 59, 183n 6, 184n11, n15, 185n19, 190n2 Ban Napho ethnic Lao asylum seekers, 184n13 Bank loans, 117–8, 119 Basic needs, 187n10 Bassak, City of, 192n4 Beasley-Murray, J., 112, 190n3 Boat-racing festivals, 182n7 Bocage witchcraft, 190n1 Bolaven Plateau, 151 Border, 63–4 Boun Oum, 55 Bray, F., 27 Bret (informant pseudonym), 138–9 Broome, Sarah (informant pseudonym), 141–2 Brown, M.F., 108 Buddha airborne journey, 191n2 Buddhism, 17, 167, 173 desire, concept of, 12–3 Budget, Government, 142 Bung yaeng. See Mutual aid Bunloet (informant pseudonym), 134, 137 Bunmii (informant pseudonym), 112–3, 116–7, 120, 124, 130, 133, 134, 144, 145, 146 on wages, 147 Bunnaa (informant pseudonym), 129–30 Index 205 Caeek Khao, 157–62, 166 and Poverty Reduction Fund, 163 Caldwell, I., 122 Capitalism, 80 Carsten, J., 31 Celeritas, 173 Champa, Seng, 185n16 Champassak Province, 95–7, 98, 181 Chao Anuvong, 46, 48 Chao Nyuy, 53 China, 58, 61 Cholera epidemics, 53 Chomsky, N., 25 Cit (informant pseudonym), 86–90, 116–7, 132–4, 136–7, 144–56 Citizenship, 44, 170 Collectivization, 152, 154, 178 Collectivization policy, 94–7 of agriculture, 21, 57 in Bolaven, 189n7 coercion, 102 Don Khiaw, 98–101 failure of, 99, 103 in Laos, 189n6 Communal goods, 187n10 Community, 138, 139, 152, 162, 164 built school, 151 development participatory, 186n6 education, 141–2 Condominas, G., 52 Conventional western attitudes, 185n2 Cooperation, 162 forms, 163 Corruption, 22, 87–90, 104, 126, 176, 178 forms, 165 rice, 34 state, 4, 25, 138 Courtesies, common, 176 Cowlishaw, G., 71 Coy, Aacaan (informant pseudonym), 76–7, 99 Creak, S., 173 Cross-border mobility, 44–5, 50–2, 83–5. See also Migration Cult shrines, 183n3 Cultural intimacy, 92, 93, 172 Daw (informant pseudonym), 131–2, 134 Debts, 117–20 Delirium, 14–5, 20, 152 Debts, 117–20 Deleuze, G., 11, 12, 14–5, 20, 21, 69, 81, 180n6, 185n1, 186n9 concept of delirium, 152, 167 Delirium, 152, 167, 180n6 shared, 177 Deng (informant pseudonym), 74–81, 118, 174–5 Desire, 4, 171, 176 ascendancy, 179n4 botany of, 179n1 communication, as, 10 concept of, 175–6, 178 delirium, 14–5, 20 dwarfism, 11, 81 ethnographic thickness, 6 generative structures, 178 giganticism, 81 indigenous, as, 12–3 life, as, 11 wants, as, 8–9 western fantasy, as, 12 Determinism, 175 Di (informant pseudonym), 118, 137 Diesel pumps, 128 District Education Office, 137 District on fees and levies, 137 Poverty Reduction Fund budget allocation, 138–9, 141, 142 Devereux, G., 13–4 Don Khiaw about, 1, 16–8 community, 151 206 Index District level meeting, 140 Lao etiquette, 163 mutual aid, 163 natural economy, 156 population, 16, 20 poverty reduction programme, 4, 5 projects, 136, 143, 182n6 failure, 150; wages, 148–9, 150 road projects, 125, 135, 141, 145, 148, fig. 9–149 schools, 135, 136, 182n6 selection criteria, 139 spoken language, 183n9 stranger-power, 174–5 sub-project, 126 village representatives, 131, 133 violence, 170 Donations, 145 in phaam, 160 Double-edged power, 176 Drift, 180n6 Dualisms, 22, 175, 176, 177 Duk (informant pseudonym), 130–1, 132, 147 Dumézil, G., 122 Dynamisms, 175 Eating: relationships, 26–7, 29–30, 32–3, 42 Economic Quadrangle, 63 Economist, The on resistance groups, 169–70 Education, 138, 139 Efficacy, Super-abundance of, 162 Electricity, 125 generators, 128 Employment, 36, 39, 83 Ethnographic thickness, 6 Ethnographic thinness, 6–7, 14 Evans, G., 97, 58, 66, 96–7, 101, 184n11, 189n6 collectivization of agriculture, 154 Evasion, 154 Evrard, O., 180n8 Exploitation, 176 Extimacy, 172 Extraction, 126 Fa Ngum, 173 Factory-style organization, 161 Favret-Saada, J., 107–8, 190n1 Fear and seduction, 178 silencing effect, 188n2 Feeding, 25, 32, 34, 41 Feeding of the puutaa (territory cult), 183n3 Female power (gravitas), 172 Ferguson, J., 3 Folktales, 5, 20, 24–5, 41–2 Food, 25–6, 29 and eating...