Courtney Work

Tides of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789207736
• Artikelnr.: 59446891

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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