Grant Evans (scholar)

Grant Richard James Evans (11 October 1948 – 16 September 2014) was an Australian anthropologist and historian notable for his works on Laos.[1][2][3][4]

Grant Evans
Born	11 October 1948 Berri, South Australia, Australia
Died	16 September 2014 (aged 65) Sikhottabong District, Vientiane Municipality, Laos
Nationality	Australian
Spouse(s)	Keomany Somvandy
Children	1
Academic background
Alma mater	La Trobe University
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropologist, historian
Institutions	University of Hong Kong École française d'Extrême-Orient
Main interests	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.

Notable works

• Evans, Grant (1983). The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons Being Used in Southeast Asia?. London: Verso.
• Evans, Grant, and Kelvin Rowley (1984). Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon. London: Verso.
• Evans, Grant (1988). Agrarian Change in Communist Laos. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Evans, Grant, and Kelvin Rowley (1990). Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975. London: Verso.[lower-alpha 1]
• Evans, Grant (1990). Lao Peasants under Socialism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Evans, Grant (1995). Lao Peasants under Socialism and Post-Socialism. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.[lower-alpha 2]
• Evans, Grant (1998). The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos since 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
• Evans, Grant (ed.) (1999). Laos: Culture and Society. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.
• Evans, Grant (2002). A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin.
• Evans, Grant (2009). The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.

Notes

1. Revised edition of Red Brotherhood at War: Indochina since the Fall of Saigon.
2. Revised edition of Lao Peasants under Socialism.

References

1. Obituary by James Chamberlain (Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 103, pp. 351–354).
2. Obituary by John Williams, Australian Ambassador to the Lao PDR.
3. Obituary by Milton Osborne.
4. Obituary by Lili Sisombat.

External links

• Interview conducted by Boike Rehbein on 1 March 2009. Published in January 2011 in the Journal of Lao Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 97–107.