Svay : a Khmer village in Cambodia / May Mayko Ebihara ; edited by Andrew Mertha ; with an introduction by Judy Ledgerwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebihara, May, author.

Contributor:

Mertha, Andrew, 1965- editor.

Ledgerwood, Judy, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khmer (Southeast Asian people)--Cambodia--Svay Riaeeng.

Khmer (Southeast Asian people).

Village communities--Cambodia--Svay Riaeeng.

Village communities.

Ethnology.

Svay Riaeeng (Cambodia)--Social life and customs.

Svay Riaeeng (Cambodia).

Svay Riaeeng (Cambodia)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface / Mertha, Andrew

Introduction / Ledgerwood, Judy

Svay: A Khmer Village in Cambodia

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Cambodia as a Whole

Chapter 3 Village Svay: The Setting and Social Structure

Chapter 4 Economic Organization

Chapter 5 Religion

Chapter 6 The Life Cycle

Chapter 7 Political Organization

Chapter 8 Relations of the Village with the Surrounding World

Chapter 9 Conclusion

Appendix A Ethnological Literature on the Khmer

Appendix B Circumstances of the Research

Appendix C Demographic Analysis of West Svay's Population

Appendix D Census of Households in West Svay

Appendix E Kinship Terminology

Appendix F Cultivated Flora in West Svay

Appendix G Ownership of Property and Additional Sources of Income

Appendix H The Division of Labor in Common Activities

Appendix I The Annual Cycle

References

Memories of the Pol Pot Era in a Cambodian Village

Index

Notes:

Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph.D)--Columbia University, 1971.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-1512-7

1-5017-1480-5

OCLC:

1004376656