This book is a study about the thought of sovereignty and the rebellion of the White Hong in Thailand through the legends and the narration of this ethnic group. The book also presented the relationship between the world of possibility and the world of practice. The existing situation in the village is assessed as a model of conflict of opposites between the mixed economic system and a non opium cultivation economic system, between loyalty to the Nation State of Thailand and supporting the Communist Party in Thailand and between the Buddhism and the christianity. Even though, these conflicts are not on the same level, there is something in these conflicts that correlates. Hmong choices and Hmong conflicts are based on the conditions and the historical situations. To decrease these conflicts, the Hmong refer to their original traditions in order to present their historical consciousness (p. 195) Trapp also concludes that in the Hmong time frame, opposites are used by the Hmong to identify the difference between their ethnic group and others and to define their identity. However, in the time that they used opposistes, the other (such as shifting cultivation and sustainable cultivation or Imperialism and Non-Imperialism) becomes a part of the categories in Hmong society and causes conflicts in Hmong society. (p. 196-197)