ABSTRACT
This introductory chapter presents the author’s first encounter with the Kui people of Thailand, from online to in person. It provides the context for the ensuing research and monograph, whilst also considering the author’s own insider/outsider positionality as an ethnographer. This chapter also includes a brief overview of existing literature on the Kui, while situating the contents of this monograph within the pre-existing body of work on the community. It concludes by introducing a central focus of the monograph—the misrecognition and tension between visibility and invisibility that marks the Kui Ajiang’s heritage and identity.
