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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Main Author: Work, Courtney (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2020
In: Asian anthropologies (volume 10)
Year: 2020
Series/Journal:Asian anthropologies volume 10
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cambodia / Religion / Economic situation / Environment
IxTheo Classification:KBM Asia
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects: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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Summary: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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:178920772X