Book
The Cambodian province of Pursat
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 1956 • Pages:
By: Morizon, René, Vreeland, Herbert Harold.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed geographic study of a single Cambodian province. The province of Pursat was chosen because of its importance in earlier Khmer history as well as of its geographic unity. Morizon draws on his own explorations to fill out the sparse literature on this relatively unknown and undeveloped province. The first section is a full resume of physical geography and is followed by a general survey of the ethnic populations, their settlement pattern and their social and economic interrelations. The third section is devoted to a thorough study of resources and patterns of exploitation thereof, with interesting information on techniques of some of the occupations and ethnic divisions of labor. The final section is a review of the French administration and economic management of the Province of Pursat and of Cambodia as a whole; it is largely very favorable to the French, but some suggestions for improvement are made and there is a full and useful analysis of the budget and finances of government. There follow eleven appendices ranging from demographic and climatic statistics, through texts of legends, monuments and songs (Laotian), to a list of pagoda schools and a Khmer geographic vocabulary. Finally there are eleven miscellaneous plates and a general map.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Provinces
- Ethnic stratification
- Prophets and ascetics
- Ritual
- Religious and educational structures
- Organized ceremonial
- Religious denominations
- Government regulation
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cereal agriculture
- Fishing
- Vegetable production
- Special crops
- External relations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- F. K. Lehman ; 1956 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 543-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pursat Province, Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- René Morizon, Translated by H. H. Vreeland Jr.
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Paris, 1936
- Translation of: La province cambodgienne de Pursat, Les Éditions Internationales.
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by H. H. Vreeland Jr.
- The original French text is not available in this database
- Translated by H. H. Vreeland Jr.
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42033660
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cambodia