Grant Evans (scholar)
{{Short description|Australian anthropologist (1948–2014)}}
{{for|the Scottish footballer|Grant Evans (footballer)}}
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Grant Richard James Evans (11 October 1948{{snd}}16 September 2014) was an Australian anthropologist notable for his works on Laos.
Life
Grant was born in Berri, South Australia, on 11 October 1948.
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.{{r|c|w|o|s|r}}
Notable works
As author:
- {{cite book|year=1983|title=The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons Being Used in Southeast Asia?|url=https://pdfhost.io/v/3ud1ToJQR_The_Yellow_Rainmakers|location=London|publisher=Verso|isbn=0-86091-068-7}}
- {{cite book|year=1984|title=Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon|url=https://archive.org/details/redbrotherhoodat0000evan|others=Co-authored with Kelvin Rowley|location=London|publisher=Verso|isbn=0-86091-090-3}} Revised edition: {{cite book|year=1990|title=Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975|location=London|publisher=Verso|isbn=0-86091-501-8}}
- {{cite book|year=1988|title=Agrarian Change in Communist Laos|url=https://pdfhost.io/v/71TpHYJcf_Agrarian_Change_in_Communist_Laos|location=Singapore|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=981-3035-16-1}}
- {{cite book|year=1990|title=Lao Peasants under Socialism|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-04598-0}} Revised edition: {{cite book|year=1995|title=Lao Peasants under Socialism and Post-Socialism|url=https://archive.org/details/laopeasantsunder0000evan|location=Chiang Mai|publisher=Silkworm Books|isbn=974-7047-45-4}}
- {{cite book|year=1998|title=The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos since 1975|location=Honolulu|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=974-7100-60-6}}
- {{cite book|year=2002|title=A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between|url=https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofla0000evan|location=Crows Nest, New South Wales|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=1-86448-997-9}}
- {{cite book|year=2009|title=The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History|location=Chiang Mai|publisher=Silkworm Books|isbn=978-974-9511-66-4}}
As editor:
- {{cite book|year=1993|title= Asia's Cultural Mosaic: An Anthropological Introduction|location= New York|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=0-13-052812-9}}
- {{cite book|year=1997|title=Hong Kong: The Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis|url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a3c1e3d3-fdfb-4ce2-a468-68f4b1082d1a/content|others=Co-edited with Maria Tam|location=Honolulu|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=0-8248-2005-3}}
- {{cite book|year=1999|title=Laos: Culture and Society|location=Chiang Mai|publisher=Silkworm Books|isbn=974-87090-4-3}}
- {{cite book|year=2000|title= Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Regions|url=https://pdfhost.io/v/b2RBrIRPj_Where_China_Meets_Southeast_Asia|others=Co-edited with Christopher Hutton and Kuah Khun Eng|location=Singapore|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=981-230-040-6}}
References
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{{cite journal|first=James|last=Chamberlain|year=2015|title= Grant Evans (1948{{ndash}}2014)|url=https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/JSS_103_0q_ObituaryEvans.pdf|journal=Journal of the Siam Society|volume=103|pages=351{{ndash}}354|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721012524/https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/JSS_103_0q_ObituaryEvans.pdf|archive-date=21 July 2020|url-status=live}}
{{cite web|first=Milton|last=Osborne|author-link=Milton Osborne|date=19 September 2014|title=Grant Evans 1948{{ndash}}2014|url=http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2014/09/19/Grant-Evans-1948-2014.aspx|website=The Interpreter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920144532/http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2014/09/19/Grant-Evans-1948-2014.aspx|archive-date=20 September 2014|url-status=dead}}
{{cite web|first=Lili|last=Sisombat|date=18 September 2014|title= A researcher every country dreams of. Obituary: Dr Grant Evans|url=https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140918143212-4958802-a-researcher-every-country-dreams-of-obituary-dr-grant-evans|website=LinkedIn|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240611074035/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140918143212-4958802-a-researcher-every-country-dreams-of-obituary-dr-grant-evans/|archive-date=11 Jun 2024|url-status=live}}
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Category:Australian anthropologists
Category:Australian historians