Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture by John Clifford Holt. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.
By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power.
Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.ĭrawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Visual & Material Culture: Southeast Asia & Sri Lankaĭeathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia by Erik W.
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