Publications of Patrice Ladwig

Ladwig, Patrice. 2015. Worshipping relics and animating statues: transformations of Buddhist statecraft in contemporary Laos. Modern Asian Studies 49(6): 1875–1902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X13000486.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2014. Millennialism, charisma and utopia: revolutionary potentialities in pre-modern Lao and Thai Theravāda Buddhism. Politics, Religion and Ideology 15(2): 308–329. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2014.899067.

Ladwig, Patrice and James Mark Shields. 2014. Introduction. Politics, Religion and Ideology 15(2): 187–204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2014.898413.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2013. Haunting the state: rumours, spectral apparitions and the longing for Buddhist charisma in Laos. Asian Studies Review 37(4): 509–526.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2012. Visitors from hell: transformative hospitality to ghosts in a Lao Buddhist festival. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18(Supplement s1): S90–S102.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2012. Ontology, materiality and spectral traces: methodological thoughts on studying Lao Buddhist festivals for ghosts and ancestral spirits. Anthropological Theory 12(4): 427–447.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2011. The genesis and demarcation of the religious field: monasteries, state schools, and the secular sphere in Lao Buddhism (1893-1975). Sojourn 26(2): 196–223.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2018. The Indianization and localization of textual imaginaries: Theravada Buddhist statecraft in mainland Southeast Asia and Laos in the context of civilizational analysis. In: Jóhann Páll Arnason and Chris Hann (eds.). Anthropology and civilizational analysis: Eurasian explorations. SUNY Series: Pangaea II; Global/Local Studies. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 155–191.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2014. Mobile phone monk. In: Erik Harms, Johan Lindquist, and Joshua Barker (eds.). Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 97–99.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2013. Schools, ritual economies, and the expanding state: the changing roles of Lao Buddhist monks as "traditional intellectuals". In: John Whalen-Bridge and Pattana Kitiarsa (eds.). Buddhism, modernity, and the state in Asia: forms of engagement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 63–91.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2012. Feeding the dead: ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased. In: Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig (eds.). Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 119–141.

Ladwig, Patrice and Paul Williams. 2012. Introduction: Buddhist funeral cultures. In: Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig (eds.). Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–20.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2011. Can things reach the dead?: the ontological status of objects and the study of Lao Buddhist rituals for the spirits of the deceased. Engaging the spirit world: popular beliefs and practices in modern Southeast Asia. Asian Anthropologies 5. New York: Berghahn, pp. 19–41.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2009. Narrative ethics: the excess of giving and moral ambiguity in the Lao Vessantara-Jataka. In: Monica Heintz (ed.). The anthropology of moralities. New York: Berghahn, pp. 136–160.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2009. Prediger der Revolution: der buddhistische Mönchsorden in Laos und seine Verbindungen zur Kommunistischen Bewegung (1957-1975). Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2009. Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, pp. 181–197.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2008. Between cultural preservation and this worldly commitment: modernization, social activism and the Lao Buddhist Sangha. In: Yves Goudineau and Michel Lorillard (eds.). Recherches nouvelles sur le Laos = New research on Laos. Études thématiques/École Française d'Extrème Orient 18. Vientiane: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, pp. 465–490.

Ladwig, Patrice. From revolution to reform: ethics, gift giving and sangha-state relationships in Lao Buddhism. PhD Thesis, Cambridge University, Cambridge.

Ladwig, Patrice, Ricardo Roque, Oliver Tappe, Christoph Kohl, and Cristiana Bastos. 2012. Fieldwork between folders: fragments, traces, and the ruins of colonial archives. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 141. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Ladwig, Patrice and James Mark Shields (eds.). 2014. Against harmony?: radical and revolutionary Buddhism(s) in thought and practice. Politics, Religion and Ideology 15(2).

Schorkowitz, Dittmar, Patrice Ladwig, and Oliver Tappe. 2010. Historical anthropology in Eurasia. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report: Department II 'Socialist and Postsocialist Eurasia' 2008/2009(1). https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de#page=68.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2010. Spirits of the place: Buddhism and Lao religious culture. By John Clifford Holt. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. Pacific Affairs 83(4): 825–826.

Ladwig, Patrice. 2009. Buddhism, power and political order. Edited by Ian Harris. London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 237. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40(3): 649–651. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246340999018X.

Williams, Paul and Patrice Ladwig (eds.). 2012. Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ladwig, Patrice and Gregory Kourilsky. 2008. Caring for the beyond: two Lao Buddhist festivals for the deceased. 35 min.