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At the edge of the forest essays on Cambodia, history, and narrative in honor of David Chandler Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 46Publication details: Ithaca, N.Y. Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University 2008.Description: xii, 251 pages illustrations 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780877277460 (pbk.
  • 087727746X (pbk.
  • 9780877277767 (hbk.
  • 0877277761 (hbk.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.6 HAN
Contents:
At the edge of the forest: narrative, order, and questions of meaning in Khmer history and society / Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood -- David Chandler: selected bibliography -- Coming to Cambodia / David Chandler -- Introduction to "Songs at the edge of the forest" / David Chandler -- Songs at the edge of the forest: perceptions of order in three Cambodia texts / David Chandler -- Gaps in the world: harm and violence in Khmer Buddhist narrative / Anne Ruth Hansen -- Songs at the edge of democratic Kampuchea / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Performative realities: nobody's possession / Ashley Thompson -- King with Hansen's disease: tales of the leper in Colonial Cambodia / Sokhieng Au -- Between a song and a Prei: tracking Cambodian history and cosmology through the forest / Penny Edwards -- Constructing narratives of order: religious-building projects and moral chaos / John Marston -- Ritual in 1990 Cambodian political theatre: new songs at the edge of the forest / Judy Ledgerwood -- Imaginary conversations with mothers about death / Erik W. Davis.

"Southeast Asia Program publications."

Includes bibliographical references.

At the edge of the forest: narrative, order, and questions of meaning in Khmer history and society / Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood -- David Chandler: selected bibliography -- Coming to Cambodia / David Chandler -- Introduction to "Songs at the edge of the forest" / David Chandler -- Songs at the edge of the forest: perceptions of order in three Cambodia texts / David Chandler -- Gaps in the world: harm and violence in Khmer Buddhist narrative / Anne Ruth Hansen -- Songs at the edge of democratic Kampuchea / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Performative realities: nobody's possession / Ashley Thompson -- King with Hansen's disease: tales of the leper in Colonial Cambodia / Sokhieng Au -- Between a song and a Prei: tracking Cambodian history and cosmology through the forest / Penny Edwards -- Constructing narratives of order: religious-building projects and moral chaos / John Marston -- Ritual in 1990 Cambodian political theatre: new songs at the edge of the forest / Judy Ledgerwood -- Imaginary conversations with mothers about death / Erik W. Davis.

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