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Khmeressay 1964 • Ebihara, May
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document provides summary of Khmer culture and society....Residence patterns in a Khmer villagearticle 1977 • Ebihara, May
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This paper discusses patterns of residence in a Cambodian rural village. The focus is factors affecting residence choices in a baliteral system characterized by flexiblity of behavior. It shows that there is no consistent weighting of either either t...SvayBook 1971 • Ebihara, May
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
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, marr...Interrelations between Buddhism and social systems in Cambodian peasant cultureessay 1966 • Ebihara, May & Nash, Manning
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document discusses relationships between Buddhism and social organization of community life in a Cambodian rural village. It argues that several aspects of village culture in Cambodia is primarily shaped by the teachings and rituals of Theravada...A Cambodian village under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979essay 1993 • Ebihara, May & Kiernan, Ben
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
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 ...Culture Summaryessay 2012 • Ebihara, May & Adem, Teferi Abate
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a culture summary of the Khmers. Information is presented on major aspects of the Khmer culture....Khmer village women in Cambodiaessay 1974 • Ebihara, May & Matthiasson, Carolyn J.
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document discusses gender and the status of elderly women in a Cambodian village. It shows that elderly women who were mothers to influential men in the village played critical roles in decision making including the author's (anthropologist May ...Gender symbolism and culture changeessay 1994 • Ledgerwood, Judy et al.
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document discusses how one Khmer story (a story called "Mea Yoeng") has been used and re-used to illuminate Khmer conception of gender as a system of symbols, social order, and the processes of culture change. It argues that the story to served ...A tale of two templesessay 2011 • Ledgerwood, Judy et al.
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document revisits May Ebihara's earlier argument on links between Cambodian local communities and their wats (or temples). It argues that Ebihara's view of village temples as "a major social center" of village life remains mostly correct but thi...No longer a 'happy balance'essay 2011 • Frieson, Katie et al.
Cambodians • Asia > Southeast Asia
This document review's May Ebihara's previous work on the status of Cambodian rural women based on fieldwork undertaken in 1990-2006. The aim is to explore effects of political repression on male-female relations and village life. The discussion show...