At the edge of the forest
Subtitle: essays on Cambodia, history, and narrative in honor of David Chandler
By: Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood, editors
Series: Studies on Southeast Asia -- no. 46
Publisher: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University; Southeast Asia Program Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780877277460; 9780877277767
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Politique et gouvernement; Histoire; Civilisation; Civilization
Notes: "Southeast Asia Program publications."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: At the edge of the forest: narrative, order, and questions of meaning in Khmer history and society / Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood; title: David Chandler: selected bibliography; title: Coming to Cambodia / David Chandler; title: Introduction to "Songs at the edge of the forest" / David Chandler; title: Songs at the edge of the forest: perceptions of order in three Cambodia texts / David Chandler; title: Gaps in the world: harm and violence in Khmer Buddhist narrative / Anne Ruth Hansen; title: Songs at the edge of democratic Kampuchea / Alexander Laban Hinton; title: Performative realities: nobody's possession / Ashley Thompson; title: King with Hansen's disease: tales of the leper in Colonial Cambodia / Sokhieng Au; title: Between a song and a Prei: tracking Cambodian history and cosmology through the forest / Penny Edwards; title: Constructing narratives of order: religious-building projects and moral chaos / John Marston; title: Ritual in 1990 Cambodian political theatre: new songs at the edge of the forest / Judy Ledgerwood; title: Imaginary conversations with mothers about death / Erik W. Davis.