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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.
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Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies LC Cambodian Collection 959.6 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 3589
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies RR Cambodian Collection 959.6 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 6056
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies Joel Hoff LC Cambodian Collection 959.6 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.3 Available CKS23090162

"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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