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Rethinking Cambodian Political Discourse on Territory: Genealogy of the Buddhist Ritual Boundary (sīmā) |
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Harris, Ian
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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| Volume | v.41 n.2 |
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| Date | 2010.06 |
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| Pages | 215 - 239 |
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| Publisher | Department of History, National University of Singapore |
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http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/publications/publications2_1.htm
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| Location | Arts Link, Singapore |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Despite their profound differences all of Cambodia's post-independence regimes have exhibited a unique obsession with protecting the country's borders from the depredations of neighbouring states. Some of this is fall-out from the colonial inheritance but this paper argues that older indigenous categories related to Theravada Buddhism have also played a significant role in the aetiology of modern Khmer territorialism. By showing how the traditional maṇḍala arrangement of space was being eroded at around the same time as the old monastic conception of a ritual boundary was purified, rationalised and extended under the influence of Buddhism modernism the author seeks to provide a Southeast Asian illustration of Carl Schmitt's insight that certain important elements of the modern state are, in fact, secularised religious concepts.
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| Table of contents | Introduction 215
Cambodian sima planting 220
Indrakhlai and kingship 221
City and state 223
Theravada hegemony and reform 226
Hardening the boundary – Buddhist modernism and its consequences 228
Concluding remarks 237
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| ISSN | 00224634 (P); 14740680 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1017/S0022463410000032 |
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| Hits | 121 |
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| Created date | 2017.06.13 |
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| Modified date | 2019.12.19 |
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