Of rice and spice: Hmong livelihoods and diversification in the Northern Vietnam uplands

Moving Mountains: Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 100-122

  Tugault Lafleur, Claire ^a   Turner, Sarah ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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