In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War tai language and rich natural resources emerge

and rich natural resources emerge from the shadows of its more powerful neighbours after being carved up by colonial powers in the nineteenth century and dragged into devastating revolution and war in the twentieth

which many Western scholars have found to be undecipherable

9 January 2012)

He came to Sweden in 1974 to work in Kristina Lindell's Kammu project

In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War tai language and rich natural resources emergeIn Buddhas Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Blending the methodologies of cultural history and ethnography, Richard Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungle haunted by indigenous spirits. Drawing on