This is the first-ever English language translation of Sawaeng Malasaem’s thesis from the 1990s, an invaluable “history from below” of the Yong people of northern Thailand. A people with a long history of migration, adaptation, negotiation, and transformation into the new lands and societies in which they moved, this book tells the overlooked and untold histories of the Yong that have been covered over by Bangkok-centric narratives and histories.
