Book
Svay: a Khmer village in Cambodia
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Ebihara, May.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides detailed account a Cambodian rural village based on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in 1959-1960. Major themes covered include round of daily life, physical setting and settlment pattern, family and kinship organization, marriage sytem, economic activities, religious life, political organization, and relations with the central government. It also discusses aspects of village culture with broad resemblance to other Southeast Asian lowland groups such as the Thai, Laotians, and Burmese.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Cultural identity and pride
- Cereal agriculture
- Cultural identity and pride
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Territorial hierarchy
- External relations
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Priesthood
- Prophets and ascetics
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Revolution
- Political parties
- Research and development
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- 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.
- 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
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- May Mayko Ebihara
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Columbia University, 1968
- UM 71-17,577
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 684-705)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khmers