Prasit LEEPREECHA

Prasit LEEPREECHA (CESD, Chiang Mai University) earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2001. Presently, he is a researcher at the Social Research Institute and Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Chiang Mai University. He is one of the editors of Living in a Globalized World : Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (2008), and Challenging the Limits : Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region (2008). His main interests include ethnic minorities in northern Thailand and mainland Southeast Asia, identity cultural change, tourism, and the impact of nationalism and globalization on ethnic minorities.

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