book chapter
Cambodia - Volume 1: the modern kingdom
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Aymonier, E. (Etienne), b. 1844, Thompson, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains a part of the first volume of a three-volume work by Aymonier, 'Le Cambodge,' that is mainly concerned with the ancient Khmer culture and its monuments. It is considered a standard work but has been outdated by the later work of Lawrence P. Briggs. The text included here contains general descriptive information about Cambodia and it inhabitants during the late nineteenth century. The introduction includes information about the author and a general survey of the literature concerning Cambodia up to the year 1900. The chapters describe the geography; the people, their racial composition and number, their customs, religion, arts, and social classes; the kingdom, its organization, the king and his household, the royal classes; the law codes; the judicial organization; and slavery.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Topography and geology
- Education system
- Ordering of time
- Verbal arts
- Music
- Districts
- Classes
- Status, role, and prestige
- Territorial hierarchy
- Legal norms
- Real property
- Regulation of marriage
- Family relationships
- Slavery
- Sex and marital offenses
- Ethnic stratification
- Prophets and ascetics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cambodians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Margaret Vranesh ; 1953 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- c. 1879
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1601-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Étienne Aymonier
- Translation of: Le Cambodge, I: Le Royaumme Actuel, Ernest Leroux, 1900.
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Margaret Thompson.
- The original French text is not available in this database
- The entire table of contents for Volume I has been added to the end of the text included in the files. The errata for the portion included will be found in on page 477; the corrections listed have been incorporated into the translation. Twenty-five figures have been included
- Included in the Files: only the introduction (p. i-xxiii) and the first four chapters (p. 1-102) of Volume 1
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cambodia