Svay
Svay

Author: May Mayko Ebihara

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1501714805

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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.

Social Status and Power in Java
Social Status and Power in Java

Author: Leslie H. Palmier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1000324494

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This book is a closely-observed anthropological study of life in two small Javanese towns and, at the same time, it attempts a general analysis on sociological lines of some key characteristics of contemporary Javanese society. In particular, the author's examination of the manner in which a pre-existing authoritarian system is being adapted to republican institutions grounded in democratic ideas helps us to understand many of Indonesia's present-day social and political problems.

Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries
Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries

Author: David G. Marr

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9971988399

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Southeast Asia has sometimes been portrayed as a static place. In the ninth to fourteenth centuries, however, the region experienced extensive trade, bitter wars, kingdoms rising and falling, ethnic groups on the move, the construction of impressive monuments and debate about profound religious issues. Readers of this volume will learn much of how people lived in Southeast Asia five hundred to one thousand years ago; the region today cannot be comprehended without reference to the seminal developments of that period.