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Do marriages forget their past?: marital stability in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
Demography • 43 (1) • Published In 2006 • Pages: 99-125
By: Heuveline, Patrick, Poch, Bunnak.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper assesses the impact of three main destabilizing factors on marital stability in Cambodia: the radical reformation of marriage under the Khmers Rouges (KR); the imbalanced gender ratio among marriageable adults resulting from gendered mortality during the KR regime; and, after decades of isolating from the West, a period of rapid social change. Although there is evidence of declining marital stability in the most recent period, marriages contracted under the KR appear as stable as adjacent marriage cohorts. These findings suggest that the conditions under which spouses were initially paired matter less for marital stability than does their contemporaneous environment.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Aftermath of combat
- Research and development
- Termination of marriage
- External relations
- Residence
- Household
- Family relationships
- Revelation and divination
- Priesthood
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Miscellaneous government activities
- Labor supply and employment
- Peacemaking
- Celibacy
- Rule of descent
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 2000
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1805-2006
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patrick Heuveline and Bunnak Poch
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64009434
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khmers