Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Louisiana Trobe in 1983, and for many years taught anthropology at the University of Hong Kong.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Louisiana 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.