Lao Folktales Rights to culture in pre-modern times

in pre-modern times

Anthony Walker provides an ethnographic introduction to the Lahu people and their way of life

Relying on this expanding compendium of historical source material

at the University of New England

powerfully written

Lao Folktales Rights to culture in pre-modern timesHere in one slim volume is a selection of the best known and best loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings. We find a quick witted toad that terrifies tigers, a turtle that flies, a cadre of snails that race a rabbit, and a mynah bird that speaks five languages fluently. The reader may recognize a whisper of Aesop or a