Facing the Cambodian Past Environment and artist

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with which many modern students are unfamiliar

Thailand’s retail and distribution industries are heading toward diversification rather than uniformity

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Sarasin Viraphol’s careful reconstruction of the tributary trade pinpoints the creative subversions

Facing the Cambodian Past Environment and artistThese nineteen essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodias past. They include studies of the leper king myth at Angkor, post Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (19751979). The collection closes with two essays