Abstract Background The Hani people, who reside in Yuanyang County, Honghe Hani and
Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, rely on rice terrace farming as their primary …

This thesis maps a landscape of healing in southern lowland Laos, demonstrating how
traditional medicine and health practices engage with and occur within the local …

Abstract covid-19 vaccination in Laos has been affected by challenges in reaching the
whole population and preexisting mistrust in the health system. Vaccination rates are low …

This chapter focuses ethnographically on two distinct sets of techniques that I documented
among the Akha, a group of swidden farmers living in highland Laos and neighboring …

'Animism'is the most common term for the local religions, ritual systems, cosmologies, or
ontologies of highland peoples in Southeast Asia and Southwest China that have not …

Any progress in shaping up an externalist psychiatry, so previous discussion suggested,
must begin from questions about the ontology of social causation. So far, research and …

Philosophical speculation about how psychiatric externalism might work in practice has yet
to consider the multitude of actual externalist psychiatric systems that exist outside of …

Flexible problem-solving has long been revered as a hallmark of human ingenuity. Our
global expansion and the sheer diversity of contemporaneous human cultures is a testament …