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Cambodian Culture since 1975 - Homeland and Exile (Paperback)
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Cambodian Culture since 1975 - Homeland and Exile (Paperback)
Series: Asia East by South
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Since the civil war of the 1970s, Cambodia has suffered devastating
upheavals that killed a million ' people and exiled hundreds of
thousands. This book is the first to examine Cambodian culture
after the ravages of the Pol Pot regime-and to bear witness to the
transformation and persistence of tradition among contemporary
Cambodians at home and abroad. Bringing together essays by Khmer
and Western scholars in anthropology, linguistics, literature, and
ethnomusicology, the volume documents the survival of a culture
that many had believed lost. Individual chapters explore such
topics as Buddhist belief and practice among refugees in the United
States, distinctive features of modern Cambodian novels, the
lessons taught by Khmer proverbs, some uses of metaphor by the
Khmer Rouge regime, the state of traditional music, the recent
revival of a form of traditional theater, the concept of pain in
Khmer culture, changing conceptions of gender, and refugees'
interpretation of American television. Together the essays map a
contemporary Cambodian culture, which, for over two hundred
thousand Khmers, is now firmly entwined in the social fabric of the
urban West.
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