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Sketching an Institutional History of Academic Knowledge Production in Cambodia (1863-2009)--Part 2 (Report)

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  • Title: Sketching an Institutional History of Academic Knowledge Production in Cambodia (1863-2009)--Part 2 (Report)
  • Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
  • Release Date : January 01, 2011
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 237 KB

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In the first part of the article, we saw how the process of modern knowledge production in the case of Cambodia was closely tied to the policies of the colonial orientalist institution, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO). EFEO's original interest in antiquities led to the development of a founding narrative of the nation state of Cambodia, itself part of French Indochina, with the "classical" Angkor period as its golden age. EFEO's parallel effort to study and codify Cambodian Buddhism, thanks particularly to the creation of the Buddhist Institute, contributed to the emergence of a modern vernacular literary trend with Buddhism as its initial vector. By contrast, the EFEO's relative neglect of ethnographic-based research meant that a new discipline, later called "Khmer Studies" or khmerologie, taking the local social fabricas its active subject of study was to develop outside official knowledge production circles--with independent "amateur" scholars like Aymonier or Leclere as its initiators. By the end of World War II, political and institutional changes within the French academic system, especially with the establishment of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the new influence of the social sciences, led to a renewal of area studies scholarship with Cambodian society and its vernacular culture as new centres of investigation. Completing a process of emancipation of the field initiated both outside and within EFEO, this trend saw the first Cambodian scholars emerging in the academic sphere. Cambodian Initiatives


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