Lampang Assessment: Revisiting a Classic Study of Field R...
Egerod, Søren / Sørensen, Per![Lampang Assessment: Revisiting a Classic Study of Field Research in Northern Thailand](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/331/33141795/CHSBZCOP0333141795.jpg)
Creation in 1969 of a Scandinavian field research station near Lampang in northern Thailand was a gamble. With war spreading from Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia and a communist insurgency growing in Thailand, some scholars feared being compromised by Cold War schemes. Yet for five years a large number of Nordic and other scholars undertook research based here, significant initiatives being made in archaeology, folklore, linguistics, etc. Follo...