texts, history, and intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855-1970 Thun, Theara creator author. text bibliography hiu 2024 monographic eng

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xiii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "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. Epistemology of the past examines how certain types and forms of historical knowledge are created, understood, and used within a given context and how that knowledge has evolved over time. The book brings together and critically explores a large collection of original manuscripts and printed texts-notably, Khmer chronicle manuscripts and colonial-era works of French scholar-officials. Thun's analysis discloses multilayers of intellectual traditions and diverse views of Cambodian and, more broadly, Southeast Asian scholars engaging with European colonial scholarship. In addition to contributing to the multidisciplinary field of Cambodian and Southeast Asian studies, Epistemology of the past will be essential reading for those interested in intellectual history, transculturation, historiography, intertextual studies, narrative studies, literature, colonialism, and nationalism"-- Theara Thun. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-cb--- Cambodia Historiography Cambodia Intellectual life DS554.5 .T48 2024 959.6 THU Thun, Theara. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2024 (DLC) 2023051638 9780824897581 2023051637 HU/DLC 231108 20260623193955.0 23387956 eng