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Prasit Leepreecha

2025 “Bot nam: Chakkrawanthat chartiphan” (Introduction: Ethnic cosmology), in Chakkrawanthat chatriphan (Ethnic cosmology), Prasit Leepreecha (ed.), pp. 1-23. Chaing Mai: Khanasangkhomsat Mahawitthayalai Chiang Mai.
2525 “Chakkrawanthat Chattiphan Hmong” (Hmong ethnic cosmology), in Chakkrawanthat chatriphan (Ethnic cosmology), Prasit Leepreecha (ed.), pp. 127-175. Chaing Mai: Khanasangkhomsat Mahawitthayalai Chiang Mai.
2025 “Voices of the Voiceless: The Cold War and the Hmong in Northern Thailand, 1965-82,” in Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories, Masuda Hajimu (ed.), pp. 91-113. University of North Carolina Press.
2024 “Phuenthi thang kanmuang khong klumchattiphan naikan luaktang radabchat” (Political space of ethnic groups in the national election), Warasan Sangkhomsat Mahawitthayalai naresuan, 20(1): 307-332).
2024 “Wongsawitthaya kansuksa chattiphansamphan khong Charles Keyes” (Genealogy on the studies of ethnicity of Charles Keyes), in Charles Keyes Mitsanit khong chaothai. Wasan Panyakaew (ed.), pp. 143-175. Chiang Mai: Phakwicha sangkhomwitthaya lae manussayawitthaya, Khana sangkhomsat, Mahawitthayalai Chiang Mai (in Thai).
2023 “Klum chattiphan Hmong” (Hmong Ethnic Group), in Saranukrom Thai samrab yaowachon, lem 44, na 37-67. Krungthep: Munlanithi khrongkan saranukrom Thai samrab yaowachon (in Thai).
2023 “Pa mai lae thi din bon phuen thi sung nai kwam mun khong khong chat” (Forest and Land on Mountain under the National Security), in Rabob kam kab thi din Thai thi tong patiroop, Pasuk Pongpaijit (ed.), pp: 280-322). Krungthep: Matichon Press (in Thai).
2023 “Transnational Indigenism in Southeast Asia,” in Regional Identities in Southeast Asia: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures, Jayeel Cornelio and Volker Grabowsky (eds.), pp: 125-149. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.
2022 Chatiphansamphan: Karnmuang khong kwam samphan lae naewkid karn suksa (Ethnicity: The Politics of Relationships and Concepts of Studies). Krungthep: Soon Manusayawithaya Sirinthorn (Ongkarn Mahachon).
2021 “Transnational Hmong Protestant Evangelism in Mainland Southeast Asia” in Ethnicity and Religion in Southwest China, He Ming and David C. Lewis (eds.). London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 96-116.
2020 “Heroes of the Plain of Jars: Hmong Monuments and Social Memory in Laos and America,” Journal of Mekong Societies 16(3): 44-78.
2019 “Becoming Indigenous Peoples in Thailand,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 50(1): 32-50.
2018 Chatiphansamphan kap kwammunkhong nai phuenthi chaidaen phaknua khong Thai lae Lao. Rainganwijai Chabapsomboon saner to samnakngan kongthun sanabsanoon kanwijai (so ko wo). (Ethnicity and security in northern border of Thai and Lao. Final Report submitted to Thailand Research Fun (TRF) (in Thai).
2017a “Namsakul Kap Krabuankarn Tham Hai Klai Pen Thai Nai Kloom Chattiphan Bon Phuenthi Sung” (Surname and Thai-ization among Highland Ethnic Groups”, Sangkhomsart 29(1): 85-124. (in Thai).
2517b Theparak Lanna: Chak Ho Phi Su San Chao Lae Anusawaree (Lanna Cults: From Spirit House to Statue in Shrine and Monument). Chiang Mai: Soon Wijai Lae Borikarn Wichakarn, Khana Sangkomsart, Mahawithayalai Chiang Mai. (in Thai).
2016a “Commoditizing His Majesty’s Footprints: Tourism in Highland Ethnic Communities in Northern Thailand” in Tourism and Monarchy in Southeast Asia. Ploysri Porananond and Victor T. King (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 69-88.
2016b Cross Border Civilization: Hmong Protestants Indigenization in Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai: Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University. (in Thai)
2016c “Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural Space,” in Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women. Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Pp. 144-166.
2015 “Ethnic Studies in Northern Thailand” in Cultural Codes: the Review for Understanding Thai People and Society. Surichai Wankaew, ed. Chiang Mai: Wanida Press. Pp. 22-64. (in Thai).
2014a “Cross-border Civilization: the Hmong Protestant Evangelization in Southeast Asia” Sangkhomsart, 26(1): 15-51. (in Thai).
2014b “Review Article: Paradigms on the Studies of Ethnicity” Varasarn Sangkhom Lumnamkhong, 10(3): 219-242. (in Thai).
2014c “Tourism in Mountainous Communities: The Politics of Ethnic Tourism in Northern Thailand”, in Southeast Asia Mobility Transition: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism. Karl Husa, Alexandra Trupp, and Helmut Wohlschlagl, eds. Vienna: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna. Pp. 329-345.
2013a “Hmong Across Borders or Borders Across Hmong? Social and Political Influences Upon Hmong People: Keynote Speech by Dr. Prasit Leepreecha1, at the Hmong Across Borders Conference, University of Minnesota, October 4, 2013”. Hmong Studies Journal, 15(2): 1-12.
2013b “The Impossible Sedentism: The Lao Hmong ‘Illegal Immigrants’ in Thailand”, in Mobility and Heritage in Northern Thailand and Laos: Past and Present. Proceedings of the Chiang Mai Conference, 1-2 December 2011. Olivier Evrard, Dominique Guillaud, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, eds. Pp. 185-204.
2013c “Multiculturalism from Below: The Movement of the Network of Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Groups in Thailand”, Soangkhomsart (Social Science), 25(2): 59-106. (in Thai).
2011 “Hmong Ethnic Group in the Context of Modern Nation-State,” in The Laos Hmong in Thailand: State Policies and Operations (1975 – 2009). Supang Chantavanich and Tawin Pleansri, eds. Bangkok: Sriboon Computer-Printing Limited Partnership. Pp. 1-37.
2009 Local Knowledge of Hmong Ethnic Group in Mae Sa Mai Community. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
2008a “The Politics of Ethnic Tourism in Northern Thailand,” in Mekong Tourism: Competitiveness & Opportunities. Andrew Adam and Mingsarn Kaosa-ard, eds. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. Pp. 223-245.
2008b “The Role of Media Technology in Reproducing Hmong Ethnic Identity,” in Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha and He Shaoying, eds. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press. Pp.89-113.
2008c “Trading, Space and Identity among Hmong in Doi Pui,” Power, Space and Ethnic Identity: Cultural Politics of Nation-state in Thai Society, Yos Santasombat, ed. Bangkok: Sirinthorn Anthropological Center. Pp.119-169 (in Thai).
2007 “Educational System and Language on the Construction of Thai Nation-state,” Social Sciences (Chiang Mai University), 19(1): 276-309 (in Thai).
2006a “Concealment of Ethnic Identity: Impact of Ethnic Discrimination on Highland Ethnic Groups in Urban Chiang Mai,” Non-bias Culture, Non-violence Life, Vol. 1. Bangkok: Sirinthorn Anthropological Centre. Pp.220 (in Thai).
2006b Hmong: Various Lives from Mountains to Chiang Mai Town. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
2005 “Tribal Research Institute and the Studies of Highland Ethnic Minorities in Northern Thailand,” Social Sciences (Chiang Mai University), 17(1): 202-237 (in Thai).
2004a “The Construction and Descent of Hmong Ethnic Identity,” The Discourse of Identity, Wipas Prachayaporn, ed. Bangkok: Sirinthorn Anthropological Center. Pp. 31-72 (in Thai).
2004b The Construction and Reproduction of Hmong Ethnic Identity in China. A final report submitted to Asian Scholarship Foundation. (29 pages).
2004c “Ntoo Xeeb: Cultural Redefinition for Forest Conservation among the Hmong in Thailand,” Hmong/Miao in Asia, Nicholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas and Gary Yia Lee, eds. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. Pp. 335-352.
2003a “Kinship Identity among Hmong and the Modernization,” Identity, Ethnicity and Marginalization. Pinkaew Luangaramsri, ed. Bangkok: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center. Pp. 203-252 (in Thai).
2003b “Knowledge and Myth on Hmong,” Ethnicity and Myth, Chupinit Kesmanee, et al., eds. Bangkok: Office of the national Culture. Pp. 23-55 (in Thai).
2002 “Kinship Across State Boundaries: The Case of Hmong,” Journal of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, 15(1):167-186 (in Thai).
2001 Kinship and Identity among Hmong in Thailand. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.
2000 “Christian Conversion and Hmong Kinship Identity in Thailand,” in Globalization and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance Reform in Southeast Asia. Gepffrey B. Hainsworth, ed. Vancouver, Canada: Center for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. Pp. 161-174.
1999 The Shaping of Hmong Kinship Identity. A paper prepared for 7th International Conference on Thai Studies, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4-8 July 1999. The conference hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Social Sciences.
1998a Modernization and the Construction of Hmong Kinship Identity. Paper presented at Vietnamese-Thai Collaborative Workshop “Ethnic Communities and Changing Environment,” held at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. 9-15 December 1998.
1998b “The Hmong Ethnic Group and Drugs Problem” Journal of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, 11(1): 136-165 (in Thai).
1997 “Jungle Tours: A Government Policy in Need of Review” in Development or Domestication?: Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia. Don McCaskill and Ken Kampe, eds. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. Pp. 268-288.
1987 Factors Relating to the Ideal Number of Children of the Hmong: A Case Study in Nan Province. Mahidol University, Institute of Population and Social Research, Master Degree Thesis (in Thai).
Prasit Leepreecha, comp.
1995 Bibliography on the Ethnic Minorities in Southeast Asia 1991-1995 (Thai-English Volume). Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University.
1994 The Hmong Proverbs. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Hmong and Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha, Don McCaskill and Kwanchewan Buadaeng, eds.

2008 Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press.

Prasit Leepreecha et al.

2015 Northern Thai Displaced People: Ethnic History and Nation-State Border. Chiang Mai: Wanida Press. (in Thai).
1993 “Demographic Variables in Fetal and Child Mortality: Hmong in Thailand,” Social Science and Medicine, 36(9): 1109-1120.
1990 Hmong Demography: An Anthropological Case Study. Proceedings of Meeting of the International Union for the scientific Study of Population, New Delhi.
1989 Hmong Child Survival in Thailand, Laos, and California. Paper prepared or Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April.
1986 Thai-Kham Muang-White Hmong-Po Karen-Black Muser Medical Dictionary. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University, Department of Linguistic (in Thai, Hmong, Karen, and Lahu).

Prasit Leepreecha and Kanokwan Meeprom

2019 “Chon Phuenmuang kap karn kloenwai dan singwaedlom khong Pakagernyaw phuenthi Mae Chaem” (Indigenous and ecological movement of the Pakagenyaw (Karen) in Mae Chaem), Warasan Pathanasart 2(2): 140-177. (in Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha, Kwanchewan Buadaeng and Panadda Boonyasaranai

2004 Lives of Urban Ethnic Groups. Chiang Mai: Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University. (in Thai)
1999 A Study of the Socio-economic Vulnerability of Urban-based Tribal Peoples in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, Thailand. Chiang Mai: Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University.

Prasit Leepreecha and Leesa Chuchuenchitsakul, eds.

1994 Life Songs of Pakakayo (Karen). Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Karen and Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha and Meixi

2018 “Indigenous Educational Movements in Thailand” in Handbook of Indigenous Education, E.A. McKinley, L.T. Smith (eds.), pp: 1-20. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1839-8_55-1)

Prasit Leepreecha and Panadda Boonyasaranai

2005 “Tribal Research Institute and the Study on Highland Ethnic Groups in Northern Thailand”, Social Science (Chiang Mai University), 17(1): 203-237. (in Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha and Ratana Duidee

2020 “Hmong Protestant kap kwam thansamai nai muang Chiang Mai” (Hmong Protestants and Modernity in Urban Chiang Mai), Warasan Manusayawithaya (3(2): 84-114. (in Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha and Sombat Khamboonyuang

1995 Report of Evaluation and Research on “the Health Care Promotion and Drugs Using Control in Ban Mae Sa Mai.” Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha and Songkran Chantakard

2020 “The Stateless Tai Lue in Chiang Kham”, ASR: CMU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 7(2): 1-15.
2018 Kankha chaidaen kap kwam(mai)munkhong nai cheewit manud puenthi chaidaen banhuak (Border trading and human (in)security in Ban Huak border area),” Sangkhomsart 30(2): 99-135.

Prasit Leepreecha and Yanyong Trakarnthamrong

2005 “Hiding Identity on Space Building: Ethnic Bias and Reluctant Self-identification among Highlanders” in Un-bias Culture, Un-violence Life. Bangkok: Sirinthorn Anthropological Center. Pp. 183-200 (in Thai).

Prasit Leepreecha, Yanyong Trakarnthamrong and Wisut Leksomboon

2004 Mien: Various Lives from Mountains to Town. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).

Badenoch, Nathan and Prasit Leepreecha

2011 “Rights and Rites: Local Strategies to Manage Competition for Watershed Resources in Northern Thailand”, in Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region. Kate Lazarus, et al, eds. London: Earthscan. Pp. 67-89.

Baird, Ian, Prasit Leepreecha, and Urai Yangcheepsutjarit.

2017 “Who should be considered ‘Indigenous’? A survey of ethnic groups in northern Thailand,” Asian Ethnicity 18(4): 543-562.

Chanchailue Payijualuemoua and Prasit Leepreecha

2015 “Means of Transnational Marriage between Hmong in Laos and America” in Critical Development and Modernity in Laos. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti and Soimart Rungmanee, eds. Chiang Mai: Wanida Press. Pp. 108-148. (in Thai).

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti and Prasit Leepreecha

1992 The Workshop and Seminar on “Ethnic Studied in Laos and Thailand.” Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
1991a The Workshop on “Highland Resources Management and Hill Tribes Development Policy: A Case study of Doi Inthanon National Park.” Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
1991b The Baseline of Forest Resource in Upper North of Thailand. Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
1990a The Workshop on “Experience, Problem and Direction of Hill Tribes Development of the Hill Tribe’s Non-Government.” Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).
1990b The Workshop on “Social Sciences Study Management for the Public Health Development.” Chiang Mai: Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University (in Thai).

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Prasit Leepreecha, Malee Sitthikriengkrai and Panadda Boonyasaranai

2010 “A Half-century of Highland Development: From State’s National Security to Ethnic Communities’ Insecurity”, in Rethinking Development: From Northern Locals to Mekong Region. Wasan Panyakaew, ed. Chiang Mai: Center for Research and Academic Services. Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, pp. 28-51 (in Thai).

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Prasit Leepreecha and Chanya Butt

1993 The Situation of Hilltribe Women and Children. A report submitted to WHO, Bangkok.

Evrard, Olivier and Prasit Leepreecha

2013 Picturing Highlanders: A Half-century of Photography in Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Center for Ethnic Studies and Development and Institute for Research and Development.
2009a Monk, Monarch and Mountain Folks: Domestic Tourism and Internal Colonialism in Northern Thailand,” Critical of Anthropology, 29(3): 300-323.
2009b “Staging the Nation, Exploring the Margins: Domestic Tourism and Its Political Implications in Northern Thailand,” in Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism. Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T. C. Chang, eds. London and New York: Routledge. PP. 239-252.
2006 Climbing up the Doi Suthep: Domestic Tourism and the Staging of the Thai Nation. A Paper presented at “Of Asia Origin”: Rethinking of Contemporary Tourism in Asia. An International Conference Organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 7-9 September 2006.

Kunstadter, Peter and Prasit Leepreecha

1994 Morbidity of Hmong Refugees in Fresno, California Compared with Non-Refugee Hmong in Thailand. Paper prepared for Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, March 28.
1991a “Causes and Consequences of Decline in Child Death Rates: Ethnoepidemiology among Hmong of Thailand,” Human Biology, 64(6): 821-841.
1991b “Rapid Changes in Fertility among Hmong in Northern Thailand,” in Proceedings of the Thai National Symposium on Population Studies, 21-22 November 1991. Salaya, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand. Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. Pp.103-132.

Kwanchewan Buadaeng and Prasit Leepreecha

2020 Satsana nai prachakhom ASEAN: Kwam khatyaeng, Nayobai lae Naewthang kan Patibat (Religions in ASEAN Community: Conflict, Policy and Practice. Final report submitted to Thailand Research Fund. (in Thai).
2009 “Modern Education System and Impact on Ethnic Minorities,” Education, Economy and Identity: Ten Years of Educational Reform in Thailand. Audrey Baron-Gutty and Supat Chupradit, eds. IRASEC Occasional Paper. Pp. 37-50.

McCaskill, Don, Prasit Leepreecha and He Shaoying, eds.

2008 Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press.

Mukdawan Sakboon, Prasit Leepreecha and Panadda Boonyasaranai.

2017 “Kho Rai Sanchat: Resident Aliens and the Paradox of National Integration in Thailand” in Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia, Gin, Ooi Keat and Volker Grabowsky (eds.). Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. Pp. 57-104.

Rutherford, Jeff, Prasit Leepreecha and Panadda Boonyasaranai

2005 Alternative Development in Northern Thailand – How Much Credit (or Blame) Can it Claim?: Results of Six Village Case Studies. Number 9 in the Series of Ethnic Groups and Development, Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University.