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Biografisk notat
The late May Mayko Ebihara was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Lehman College. Andrew Mertha is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Brothers in Arms, also from Cornell. Judy Ledgerwood is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. She is a contributor to Anthropology and Community in Cambodia, a collection of essays in honor of May Ebihara. Her most recent book is At the Edge of the Forest, published by Southeast Asia Program Publications.
<p>"The book is well written and thorough, and Ebihara's structuralist approach is not rigid nor ideological; e.g., she highlights the importance of the individual, documenting the lives of specific people and noting the egalitarian qualities of the village without overlooking historical Khmer class distinctions."</p>
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May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay 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.
List of Illustrations
Preface, by Andrew C. Mertha
Introduction, by Judy Ledgerwood
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Cambodia as a Whole
3. Village Svay
4. Economic Organization
5. Religion
6. The Life Cycle
7. Political Organization
8. Relations of the Village with the Surrounding World
9. Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H
Appendix I
References
Memories of the Pol Pot Era in a Cambodian Village
Index
"Scholars of Cambodia have long regarded May Ebihara's beautiful, meticulously researched thesis as a fundamental work on the country. Making it available in book form to a larger public is a great gift to Cambodian studies."
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
The late May Mayko Ebihara was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Lehman College. Andrew Mertha is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Brothers in Arms, also from Cornell. Judy Ledgerwood is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. She is a contributor to Anthropology and Community in Cambodia, a collection of essays in honor of May Ebihara. Her most recent book is At the Edge of the Forest, published by Southeast Asia Program Publications.