Tides of empire: religion, development, and environment in Cambodia
Introduction -- Shaping the space : movement, stories, and structure -- A roadology : intentional acts of movement and transformation -- Neak Ta : articulating the boundaries -- The cham : history, memory, and practice -- Merit in motion : temple building and other powerful acts -- Conclusion.
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publié: |
New York Oxford
Berghahn Books
2020
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Asian anthropologies (volume 10)
Année: 2020 |
| Collection/Revue: | Asian anthropologies
volume 10 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Kambodscha
/ Religion
/ Wirtschaftliche Lage
/ Umwelt
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| RelBib Classification: | KBM Asie NCG Éthique de la création; Éthique environnementale |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Anthropology of religion (Cambodia)
B Cambodia Environmental conditions B Cambodia Social conditions 21st century B Economic Development Social aspects (Cambodia) |
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Table des matières Quatrième de couverture |
| Résumé: | Introduction -- Shaping the space : movement, stories, and structure -- A roadology : intentional acts of movement and transformation -- Neak Ta : articulating the boundaries -- The cham : history, memory, and practice -- Merit in motion : temple building and other powerful acts -- Conclusion. "At the forested edge of Cambodia's development frontier, the infrastructures of global development engulf the land and existing social practices like an incoming tide. Cambodia's distinctive history of imperial surge and rupture makes it easier to see the remains of earlier tides, which are embedded in the physical landscape, and also floating about in the solidifying boundaries of religious, economic, and political classifications. Using stories from the hybrid population of settler-farmers, loggers, and soldiers, all cutting new social realities from the water and the land, this book illuminates the contradictions and continuities in what the author suggests is the final tide of empire"-- |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 178920772X |