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Death, Memory and Building: The Non-Cremation of a Cambodian Monk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2006

John Marston
John Marston
Affiliation:
The Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. Email: jmars@colmex.mx
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Abstract

This article examines one case of the ceremonial preservation of a Buddhist monk's body in rural Cambodia. While consistent with Buddhist relic veneration traditions and regional death ritual patterns, the case shows local actors and conditions influencing practice. The study discusses whether there is a recent efflorescence of such practices in Cambodia and whether the ‘post-socialist’ moment has tended to foster their revival.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , October 2006 , pp. 491 - 505
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2006 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

Part of this research was funded by a grant from the Center for Khmer Studies with the support of the Luce Foundation. My thanks to Charles Keyes, Erik Davis, Justin McDaniel and Eve Zucker for oral and written comments on versions of the article when it was still at the conference paper stage and to Sarah Fremerman for comments on a later draft. I would also like to thank Elizabeth Guthrie for bibliographical suggestions in the early stages of writing. Thanks to Richard O'Connor for providing me his discussant notes for a panel on funerary practices in Southeast Asia. Special gratitude is due to my research assistant, Chhuon Houer.