Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands - Couverture souple

Padwe, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295746904 ISBN 13 : 9780295746906

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2020

Synopsis

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, only to find themselves relocated to the “killing fields” of the Khmer Rouge regime. Now back in their homeland, they have reestablished agriculture, seed by seed. Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories tells the story of violence and dispossession in the highlands from the perspective of the land itself. Weaving rich ethnography with the history of the Jarai and their treatment at the hands of outsiders, Jonathan Padwe narrates the highlanders’ successful efforts to rebuild their complex, highly diverse agricultural system after a decades-long interruption. Focusing on the ecological dimensions of social change and dispossession from the precolonial slave trade to the present moment of land grabs along a rapidly transforming resource frontier, Padwe shows how the past lives on in the land. An engrossing treatment of timely issues in anthropology and political ecology, this book will also appeal to readers in environmental studies, geography, and Southeast Asian studies.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jonathan Padwe is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaiˈi at Mānoa. He is the author of Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands (University of Washington Press, 2020).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295746904
• ISBN 13: 9780295746906
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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