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Author Ebihara, May, author

Title Svay : a Khmer village in Cambodia / May Mayko Ebihara ; edited by Andrew Mertha ; with an introduction by Judy Ledgerwood
Published Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface / Mertha, Andrew -- Introduction / Ledgerwood, Judy -- Svay: A Khmer Village in Cambodia -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Cambodia as a Whole -- Chapter 3 Village Svay: The Setting and Social Structure -- Chapter 4 Economic Organization -- Chapter 5 Religion -- Chapter 6 The Life Cycle -- Chapter 7 Political Organization -- Chapter 8 Relations of the Village with the Surrounding World -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Appendix A Ethnological Literature on the Khmer -- Appendix B Circumstances of the Research -- Appendix C Demographic Analysis of West Svay's Population -- Appendix D Census of Households in West Svay -- Appendix E Kinship Terminology -- Appendix F Cultivated Flora in West Svay -- Appendix G Ownership of Property and Additional Sources of Income -- Appendix H The Division of Labor in Common Activities -- Appendix I The Annual Cycle -- References -- Memories of the Pol Pot Era in a Cambodian Village -- Memories of the Pol Pot Era in a Cambodian Village -- Index
Summary "May Mayko Ebihara (1934-2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Provides a remarkably detailed picture of individual villagers and of Khmer social structure and kinship, agriculture, politics, and religion. The world Ebihara described would soon be shattered by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Fifty percent of the villagers perished in the reign of terror, including those who had been Ebihara's adoptive parents and grandparents during her fieldwork. Never before published as a book, Ebihara's dissertation served as the foundation for much of our subsequent understanding of Cambodian history, society, and politics"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Columbia University, 1971
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Khmer (Southeast Asian people) -- Cambodia -- Svay Riĕng
Village communities -- Cambodia -- Svay Riĕng
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Khmer (Southeast Asian people)
Manners and customs
Village communities
SUBJECT Svay Riĕng (Cambodia) -- Social life and customs
Svay Riĕng (Cambodia) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Cambodia -- Svay Riĕng
Genre/Form Ethnography
History
Form Electronic book
Author Mertha, Andrew, 1965- editor.
LC no. 2017044735
ISBN 9781501714801
1501714805
9781501714719
1501714716