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Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855-1970

Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855-1970

Thun, Theara

Hardcover

Series: New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory

General World HistoryHistoriographySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0824897587
ISBN13: 9780824897581
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Aug 31 2024
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two distinctive modes of historical presentation and their impacts on society. By examining historical discourses on Cambodia through the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence years, he presents a compelling account of indigenous scholars, with varying perspectives, who advocated competing versions of history. Thun argues that new discourses about national history emerged by drawing on, reconfiguring, combining, or, in many cases, rejecting older discourses of precolonial historical scholarship.

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