Grant Evans (scholar)

Grant Evans (1948–2014) was an Australian anthropologist and historian notable for his works on Laos.

He received his Ph.D. from La Trobe in 1983, and for many years taught anthropology at the University of Hong Kong.

In 2005, he moved permanently to Vientiane, where he was a senior research fellow at the École française d'Extrême-Orient. He died in Vientiane on 16 September 2014.^[1][2][3]

Notable works

• Grant Evans (1983). The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons Being Used in Southeast Asia?. London: Verso.
• Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley (1984). Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon. London: Verso.^[4]
• Grant Evans (1988). Agrarian Change in Communist Laos. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.^[5][6]
• Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley (1990). Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975.^{[lower-alpha 1]} London: Verso.
• Grant Evans (1990). Lao Peasants under Socialism. New Haven: Yale University Press.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}
• Grant Evans (1995). Lao Peasants under Socialism and Post-Socialism.^{[lower-alpha 2]} Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.^[14]
• Grant Evans (1998). The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos since 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.^[15][16][17]
• Grant Evans (ed.) (1999). Laos: Culture and Society. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.^[18][19]
• Grant Evans (2002). A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin.
• Grant Evans (2009). The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.^[20][21]

Notes

1. Revised edition of Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon.
2. Revised edition of Lao Peasants under Socialism.

References

1. Obituary by John Williams, Australian Ambassador to the Lao PDR.
2. Obituary by Milton Osborne.
3. Obituary by Lili Sisombat.
4. Review by Carlyle A. Thayer.
5. Review by Arthur J. Dommen.
6. Review by Geoffrey Gunn.
7. Review by Randall Ireson.
8. Review by Charles F. Keyes.
9. Review by Justus M. van der Kroef.
10. Review by Susan Rigdon.
11. Review by Janet Salaff.
12. Review by Nicholas Tapp.
13. Review by R. H. Taylor.
14. Review by Andrew Walker.
15. Review by Arthur J. Dommen.
16. Review by Bruce M. Lockhart.
17. Review by Martin Stuart-Fox.
18. Review by Bruce M. Lockhart.
19. Review by Guido Sprenger.
20. Review by Justin McDaniel.
21. Review by Guido Sprenger.

External links

• Interview conducted by Boike Rehbein on 1 March 2009. Published in January 2011 in the Journal of Lao Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 97–107.