Salvage : : Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia / / Krisna Uk.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 6 halftones, 2 line figures, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Text Boxes
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Ways of Being Jorai
  • 2. Local Lives Caught in the Storm of Global History
  • 3. Postconflict Strategies of the Jorai Homo Faber
  • 4. Adjusting Rituals
  • 5. Aesthetic Forms of Memory
  • 6. Leu, Present and Future
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index