The Khmer Lands of Vietnam : Environment, Cosmology, and Sovereignty /
The indigenous people of southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a uniq...
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Coastal dune belt: monastic sovereignty in the forested archipelago
- Coastal river-dune complex: a narrative confederation
- Freshwater rivers: displacement and refuge along the rivers of the central delta
- Saltwater rivers: sovereign nature and tidal history in a Khmer river basin
- Flooded mountains: encircled by water, divided by nations
- Oceanside mountains: nature and subsidence between swamp and sea
- The northeast uplands: primitive modernity in the forest metropole.