______________________ Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2011 Information and Announcements i-iv Research Essays “Important Kings of Laos”: Translation and Analysis of a Lao Cartoon Pamphlet. 1-44 VOLKER GRABOWSKY and OLIVER TAPPE Study of Tourism and Labour in Luang Prabang Province 45-65 NITTANA SOUTHISENG and CHRISTOPHER WALSH Review Article: Waeng Phalangwan – A Lao-Isan Perspective on Thai Lukthung 66-96 JAMES MITCHELL Interview Interview with Grant Evans conducted by Boike Rehbein 97-107 Book Reviews Briggs, Thomas Leo. Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos. Rockville, Maryland: Rosebank Press, 108-116 2009. 366 pp. IAN G. BAIRD Tappe, Oliver. Geschichte, Nationsbildung und Ligitimationspolitik in Laos. Untersuchungen zur Laotischen Historiographie 117-119 und Ikonographie, Berlin: LIT, 2008. 394 pp. BOIKE REHBEIN Evans, Grant. The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009. pp. 430+xv. 120-123 JUSTIN McDANIEL The Journal of Lao Studies is published twice per year by the Center for Lao Studies, 65 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA. For more information, see the CLS website at www.laostudies.org. Please direct inquiries to
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