Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia 9780231540667, 9780231169189, 2015006821

Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia 9780231540667

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically recasts attitudes toward the nature of

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Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge 9789971694722, 9789971695781

For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period

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Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone 9780226764467

How is the slave trade remembered in West Africa? In a work that challenges recurring claims that Africans felt (and sti

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Ritual Imagination: A Study of Tromba Possession Among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar 9004215247, 9789004215245

Exploring the rich world of tromba spirit possession in eastern Madagascar, this book offers a fresh perspective on ques

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The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism 9780231537780

The Body Incantatory reveals the histories and logics of practice of deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual. Paul Copp

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Cambodia A Country Study

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Svay: A Khmer Village in Cambodia 9781501714801

May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay p

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The Cambodia Forum 9789814311397

Cambodia was once in the news for all the wrong reasons: relentless bombing during the Vietnam War, genocide during the

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Cambodia 1851091777, 9781851091775, 9780585024011

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Hun Sen's Cambodia 9780300210149

A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia

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