[Tlc] C-new book

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI. Check out this great new book edited by two TLC members (the former TLC chair, Dr. Anne Hansen, and former TLC distinguished speaker, Dr. Judy Ledgerwood) in honor of the work of another TLC member -- Dr. David Chandler.

Thanks,
justin

At the Edge of the Forest
Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler

Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood, eds.

URL: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/publications/item.asp?id=1147 

SOSEA-46, May 2008 , 251 pages. 978-0-87727-746-0 paperback $23.95, 978-0-87727-776-7 hardcover $46.95


Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

Anne Ruth Hansen is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Comparative Study of Religion Program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Her work focuses on the history and development of Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia and on Buddhist ethics.

Judy Ledgerwood is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Northern Illinois University. Her work has examined gender, migration and diasporic communities, politics, human rights, and more recently, religion in contemporary Cambodia.

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu