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Kinship Beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism |
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Davis, Erik W.
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Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.16 n.1 |
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| Date | 2015.05 |
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| Pages | 125 - 140 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Erik W. Davis works as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His main research interests are Cambodia, Buddhism, and ritual performance. Address: Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105, USA. E-mail: |
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| Keyword | Children; Moral Development; Buddhism; Ethnology; Families |
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| Abstract | This article deals with the phenomenon of past-life memory among contemporary Cambodian children, using one exemplary case, of a young girl born with memories of her past existence as her own uncle, who predeceased her by 20 years. In contrast to the liberating power attributed to past-life memory among buddhas and arhats, past-life memory among children is considered frightening and abnormal in Cambodia. Investigating the ways in which families deal with such past-life memories in their children, I outline how the concerns of parents are founded in concerns about moral development, autonomy, and dependence. The ethnographic approach taken here is intended to complement and complicate the normative approaches to past-life memory as solely a liberating accomplishment, a requisite part of the trividyā (Triple Knowledge). |
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| Table of contents | Khun in Kompong Cham 125
Models of rebirth memory 127
Past-birth memory and its production 129
Children versus ascetics—memory in children is a sickness to be treated 130
Moral progress requires dependency 130
Eggs, babies, and lineage 135
Conclusion 136
Acknowledgements 137
Disclosure statement 137
Funding 137
Notes 137
References 139
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2015.1008953 |
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| Hits | 159 |
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| Created date | 2015.11.12 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.17 |
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