Tides of Empire

Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-772-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Asian Anthropologies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Work, Courtney

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. Shaping the Space: Movement, Stories, and Structure

Chapter 2. A Roadology: Intentional Acts of Movement and Transformation

Chapter 3. Neak Ta: Articulating the Boundaries

Chapter 4. The Cham: History, Memory, and Practice

Chapter 5. Merit in Motion: Temple Building and Other Powerful Acts

Conclusion

Glossary of Non-English Terms

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Work, Courtney
Courtney Work is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University. She studied at Cornell University, and has published multiple papers on the intersections of religion, traditional practices, and the politics of land, global development, and climate change.