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Reading and research
Books, reports, archives, films and language resources: where to read further, and where the evidence is kept.
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Books about the Dega
A reading list for anyone who wants to understand the Dega properly, our own young people above all: the books and articles we trust, what each is good for, and where it can be read. Many are free online, and the older ones are in our own library.
Reports and documents
The human rights record of our people since 1975 is written mainly in reports: by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, by the United Nations, by governments, and by our own organizations. This page lists the ones we rely on, in order, with what each contains and where to find it. Most are free to read, and many are in our own library.
Archives and collections
Most of the written evidence of our history is kept by the governments, armies, missions and museums that dealt with us, and almost none of it in the highlands. This is where it is: what each place holds, how to reach it, and which of its documents we have already copied into our own library. Much of it can be searched online, and many of the do...
Language resources
Our languages are the part of our inheritance most at risk and the easiest to lose without noticing. This page lists what exists to learn, teach and study them: the codes that libraries and software use to find them, how endangered each one is, the dictionaries and grammars that can be downloaded free today, the recordings of our elders’ speech...
Films and recordings
Where to see and hear the Dega: the American wartime films now in the public domain, later documentaries, videos made in our own languages, the published records of our music, and the field recordings held in Paris, many of them free to listen to online. We list what we have been able to find and check, and say where we could not.
Theses and academic studies
A guide to the doctoral and master’s theses and the academic studies written about our peoples and the highlands, in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and in the communities we built abroad. It is for students, researchers and anyone who wants to go deeper than this library can. Every item was checked against a thesis register, a library catalog, the p...
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