Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia

Dilemmas and detours : fieldwork with ethnic minorities in upland southwest China, Vietnam and Laos / Sarah Turner -- Comrades of minority policy in China, Vietnam, and Laos / Jean Michaud -- Blunders in the field : an ethnographic situation among the Drung people in southwest China / Stéphane Gros -- Gifts and debts : the morality of fieldwork in the Wa lands on the China-Burma frontier / Magnus Fiskejö -- The fun and games of taking children to the field in Guizhou, China / Candice Cornet -- Socialist rules and postwar policies : reflections on nationality and fieldwork among the Yao in northern Vietnam / Jennifer Sowerwine -- Doing fieldwork and making friends in upland northern Vietnam : entanglements of the professional, personal, and political / Christine Bonnin -- The backstage of ethnograhy as ethnography of the state : coping with officials in the Lao People's Democratic Republic / Pierre Petit -- Marginality in the margins : serendipity, gatekeeps, and gendered positionalities in fieldwork among the Khmu in northern Laos / Karen McAllister -- Field research on the margins of China and Thailand / Janet C. Sturgeon -- Easier or exile? : comparative observations on doing research among Tibetans in Lhasa and Dharamsala / Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy -- The silenced research assistant speaks her mind / Sarah Turner -- Between engagement and abuse : reflections on the "field" of anthropology and the power of ethnography / Oscar Salemink -- Textual desert-emotional oasis : an unconventional confessional dialogue on field experience/ Stevan Harrell and Li Xingxing -- Red stamps and gold stars on the margin / Sarah Turner.