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Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births, and Ritual Harm Under the Khmer Rouge
Peg Levine
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Paperback. Group marriages along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodia society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This title argues that suffering was intensified by ritual tampering on the part of the Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979) of Cambodia. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations (some col.), map. BIC Classification: 1FMC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979), filming their return to these locations. In the process, she uncovered evidence of the way severe dislocation, induced starvation and other murderous activities paved the way for reconstructed communes. Group marriages along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodia society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This 'ritualcide' caused a mass loss of spirit-protective places, objects, and arbitrators, and had a traumatic impact on Khmer ... Read more
For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979), filming their return to these locations. In the process, she uncovered evidence of the way severe dislocation, induced starvation and other murderous activities paved the way for reconstructed communes. Group marriages along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodia society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This 'ritualcide' caused a mass loss of spirit-protective places, objects, and arbitrators, and had a traumatic impact on Khmer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694722
SKU
V9789971694722
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About Peg Levine
Peg LEVINE is Senior Research Fellow/Clinical Psychologist at the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. As a sculptor, LeVine generated ceramic, wax and bronze figures to illustrate the aftermath embedded in survivors' descriptions
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