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A Cambodian village under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979
Genocide and democracy in Cambodia : the Khmer Rouge, the United Nations, and the international community, edited with an introduction by Ben Kiernan • (41) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 51-63
By: Ebihara, May, Kiernan, Ben.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document , anthropologist May Ebihara provides a detailed account of her 1989 and 1990 visit to the Cambodian village of Sobay which she studied in 1959-1960. The focus is on changes that have occurred in the village in the intervening three decades and especially because of the 1975-1979 civil war. She shows that the Khmer Rouge controlled Sobay only after their final capture of Phnom Pehn on April 17, 1975. For this reason, the residents of Sobay were politically labelled as "new people" which subjected them to even more harsh repression than people in formerly "liberated" areas. A majority of the villagers were killed, although some of Ebihara's former friends and neigbors also managed to survived.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Aftermath of combat
- Warfare
- Political parties
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Settlement patterns
- Public works
- Form and rules of government
- Household
- Extended families
- Medical care
- Peacemaking
- Labor supply and employment
- Research and development
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 1959-1960, 1989-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- May Ebihara
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93060073
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khmers