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Purchasing power and pagodas: The Sīma monastic boundary and consumer politics in Cambodia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2007

Alexandra Kent*
Affiliation:
Alexandra Kent is a researcher working at The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen.
*
Correspondence in connection with this paper should be addressed to alix.kent@swipnet.se.

Abstract

Cambodia is now in the midst of reconstruction after decades of organised violence and socio-cultural disruption. This paper explores how rural Cambodians are trying to recreate order in their local worlds and it questions what impact the recent deluge of consumer values, delivered through a post-socialist political filter, is having on these efforts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2007

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