Cambodia in 1984: Historical Patterns Re-asserted
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Band 12, S. 177
ISSN: 0377-5437
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In: Southeast Asian affairs, Band 12, S. 177
ISSN: 0377-5437
In: Southeast Asian affairs, Band 1985, Heft 1, S. 177-186
ISSN: 1793-9135
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 83, Heft 497, S. 413-417
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 271-279
ISSN: 1474-0680
Using thechbapto analyze pre-cotonial Cambodian society is difficult because these gnomic, normative poems are only incidentally concerned with the ways in which that society was put together. Moreover, it is hard to determine how firmly they are anchored in the times when they were written: how useful is a seventeenth centurychbap, after all, in helping us to understand eighteenth-century society? Another problem with using them is that they often provide an idealized picture, suggesting norms of behaviour rather than describing or analyzing the ways in which people behave. Because of this, the poems belong to more than one century at a time. Finally, like anything written down in a largely illiterate society, thechbapencapsulate and pass on the ideology of a minority élite. It can be argued that this ideology, in pre-colonial Cambodia at least, was rarely at odds with the ideology of the rural, illiterate poor; but this may be a circular argument, brought on by the widespread popularity, imposed by the elite over several centuries, of thechbapthemselves.
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 271
ISSN: 0022-4634
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 83, S. 413-417
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 83, Heft 497, S. 413-417,433-434
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 288-300
ISSN: 0030-851X
World Affairs Online
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 82, Heft 483, S. 149-153,183
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World Affairs Online
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 82, S. 149-153
ISSN: 0011-3530
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 226-227
ISSN: 1474-0680
In: Pacific affairs, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 410-419
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In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 410
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 506
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 16-24
ISSN: 1474-0680
The "holy man's" (nak sel) rebellion against the Vietnamese that broke out in 1820 along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border is the best-documented one of its kind in pre-colonial Cambodia, and makes a useful addition to the literature of such revolts in Buddhist Southeast Asia. Its importance in Cambodian terms lies in its anti-Vietnamese character, the participation in its ranks of Buddhist monks, the collusion of Cambodian authorities, and the way in which these themes foreshadow Cambodian political thinking, before and after the arrival of the French.