| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Ways of being Jorai -- Local lives caught in the storm of global history -- Post-conflict strategies of the Jorai homo faber -- Adjusting rituals -- Aesthetic forms of memory -- Leu present and future : locating the self |
| Summary |
In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach of the nation-state but have suffered the devastating effects of battles between and within states. Uk focuses on the experience of a Jorai community that experienced violent and protracted international and domestic conflicts--the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge regime. These conflicts had enduring effects on the community's moral fabric, the villagers' activities, and the physical and spiritual environments with which they engage daily. Uk's ethnography is an exploration of a resilient communal life that refuses to surrender its integrity to the blind, destructive forces of modern aerial warfare and that struggles to come to terms with the unintelligible violence unleashed by Cambodia's revolutionary movement. It examines the destructive power and enduring harm that explosive remnants of war inflict on the human body and the social relations. But it also reveals how the local Jorai villagers turn these treacherous and fatal products of foreign technology into precious subsistence items as well as aesthetic and ritualistic objects that will take the souls of the dead on their journey to a better life. Uk demonstrates how the Jorai of Leu can, through their creative and traditional labor, revive the legend of the formidable Jorai warriors by transforming deadly modern weapons into their own war trophies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-218) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Krieg ... |
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Rote Khmer |
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Jarai (Southeast Asian people) -- Cambodia -- Rôtânôkiri (Province)
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Ethnology -- Cambodia -- Rôtânôkiri (Province)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Ethnology
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Jarai (Southeast Asian people)
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Kulturanthropologie
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Dorfgemeinschaft
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Volksreligion
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Religionsausübung
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Totenkult
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Kriegsschaden
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Psychisches Trauma
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Resilienz
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Jarai
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Cambodia -- Ratanakiri
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Cambodge
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021702306 |
| ISBN |
9781501706868 |
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1501706861 |
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9781501706332 |
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1501706330 |
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