The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon

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DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
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DORISEA
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PAPER
ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
BENJAMIN BAUMANN
THE KHMER WITCH PROJECT:
DEMONIZING THE KHMER BY
KHMERIZING A DEMON
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BENJAMIN BAUMANN
THE KHMER WITCH PROJECT: DEMONIZING
THE KHMER BY KHMERIZING A DEMON*
ABSTRACT            
 
 
  Phi Krasue     
   
     
Phi Krasue
   
Phi Krasue

  
phi
of Phi Krasue’s           
        
           



INTRODUCTION
“The process of generating a language and set of
institutions for constructing locations and popu-
lations as dirty or clean did not simply eliminate
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ideas, putting them to new uses.” (W. Cohen 2005,
xviii)
    Engaging the Spirit World:
Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast
Asia     
      
     
      
     
     
       
     
     

    


      
 
 


      
contains powerful ethnographic material with
which one can rethink not only the now classic is-
sue in the sociology of religion of the persistence
of magic and spirits in an age of post- or late-mo-
dernity, but also “the subtle and complex inter-
connection among everyday forms of relatedness
in the present, memories of the past, and the wid-

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er [historical and] political context in which they
occur (Carsten 2007: 1).” (Pattana 2011, 202)
Phi      
Phi is an
      
    
       
      
       
    
translating phi     

     

identify representations of phi   


  phi   thevada 


category phi 


   


 
in order to account for the ontological difference
phi




       
      

      

   
       
    
 phi in popular culture and dis
     
    


     


phi
     

phi

        
    
          


      
phi

that shapes a phi’s    
       


    phi     
       
     
tries to account for the particularity of historical
      



  

PHI KRASUE
       
  
Phi Krasue        
phi
 and the continuous pres

        

phi

 has many regional names but usual
belief portrays it as a woman that likes to pos-
  
things and is characterized by its appearance as a
pulsating ball of light.  emits this light
during its nightly search for food. Especially ru-
ral villagers believe in the existence of this phi. If

immediately think it is . Villagers say
that it moves around as a head with liver, kidneys
and some other entrails attached to it. Whenev-
er someone gives birth  will smell the
blood and rush to the place to eat of the woman
giving birth or the newborn baby until its victim
  
       

       
      


        
    
Phi Krasue’s 




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wastes away. Thus there is the custom to place
thorny Jujube4 branches underneath the house,
especially in the corners used to defecate, for 
Krasue fears that its entrails will get caught up
in the thorny branches.  is rather an
old woman than a young maiden and besides raw
and stinking food it also likes to eat human faeces.
This is the reason why it is frequently encountered
near public toilets.” (So 2009, 41-43, my transla-
tion).
Figure 1. ’s movie poster (dir. S. Naowarat, 1973)
 Tamnan Phi Thai (Leg
Phi
phi
Phi Krasue’s historical origin nor
        Krasue
Sao
   Phi Krasue    
    
th
    
        
      
analysis of a phi’s


 Ziziphus jujuba
  

         





  



    
ing a particular phi’s origin are general features of
Phi
Krasue’s historical origin in these popular cultural
      

     
Mae Nak’s

  Mae Nak’s  
       


    


    Mae Nak’s legend
      
    Nang Nak

     
 
       
Nang Nak’s
 
of Mae Nak’s    


“Why wouldn’t anyone treat this story like it was
real? I spent two years researching everything I
could about the legend of Nang Nak, because it’s
based on a true story.” (Nonzee, cited in M. Davis
2003, 64)
 Mae Nak       
        Phi
Tai HongPhi Tai Hong    
      phi encountered in Thai
         
      
      
        
     
   Phi Tai Tang Glom 
Mae Nak
cies of Phi Tai Hong  


    

    
         
        




DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 6
     
   
      Bang
Rajan    Suriyothai 
      Nang Nak’s  
     

    Nang Nak’s  
  


   


Tamnan Krasue [The Legend
of Krasue]

that Phi Krasue’s
     
    

PHI KRASUE’S IDIOSYNCRATIC ORIGIN MYTH
Tamnan Krasue    th century
      
      
     
       
    

 Tamnan Krasue

           

Khom
category Khom


Khom   Khmer krom 

 Khom is usually used to
           
  
  
Khom 
       Khom script is
 
 Khom 
        
  
 Khom in


and Khom  

Khom       
        
      


categories Khom     



    
   Phi Krasue 
   

      
    

       
      


  Phi Krasue using
  phi is de



        


her into Phi Krasue      
Phi Krasue
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Tamnan Krasue   
   
for a Thai phi other than Mae Nak  
     
     
       
th
       
   
    
      
      
     


      
portray local culture heroes as crucial players in
 of peripheral populations and
      

sis of Amaritalai indicates that this is also true in scholarly
 Khom  
 


of Khom
      
       
         
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
        
    
 
    

       

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       
 

   

     

phithep or
thevada      


chaochao pho/mae or phra
      
 Nak is usually addressed
phi
     mae
  Mae Nak indicates that a relationship
    
Mae Nak
   phi tai hong through
       

“When spirits are successfully bound, new types of
-
formed into gods. A bound spirit, put to commu-
nity use, therefore has to be distinguished from a
free, or unbound, spirit.” (Levy et al. 1996, 14)
       Mae
Nak in Nang Nak   Phi Krasue
in Tamnan Krasue
   
    Phi
Krasue     
    Amaritalai 
Amaritalai in turn as an adapta
   She 
 Dracula     
 

       
   

  Amaritalai as
      
Tamnan Krasue

   Khom    
 


        
nangmae
phi

at the Mae Nak’s 
        phi tai
hong nang rather than mae

     
       

Phi Krasue
        
phi’s
Phi
Krasue’s 



     
     
 
  
 

Tamnan Krasue’s   
Phi Krasue’sth

        
        

  Phi Krasue  
  
prior to Tamnan Krasue’s
     
       

        

Zeit-
geist
  
  Tamnan Krasue associates an
  th century
       
   
   

   

   
     

      



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DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 8
THE SEMANTICS OF PHI KRASUE’S
VERNACULAR GHOSTLY IMAGE—THE UNCANNY
‘FILTH GHOST’



       

      
     
      
 

“The fear of dangerous spirits, the phi, acquired
during early childhood often does not disappear
when a person grows up. Somebody who has to
walk home in the middle of the night without
company may well become extremely apprehen-
sive, and a sudden noise or a moving shadow may

lurks in the dark. It is not considered unmanly to
be afraid in the dark.” (Terwiel 2012, 76, italics in
original)
       
   After a
  
        


     
Kamnan and soldier in
 

      

         


 
  

     
        
        
        
phi

   
         
 


      
        

       
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


      
    
phi’s
      
     
of understanding uncanniness  
       
    
    
  
 khon luk   
    phi  
      
phi 
     
    
   

Figure 2. Interlocutor in rural Buriram raising his arm to
show his goosebumps while talking about 
local manifestation

phi  

      
      
   na khon luk
       phi 


  
phi
 


 das Unheimliche      
    
  heimlich     
heimlich
‘unheimlich’,

the return of the repressed or surpassed as the essential trig
    


DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 9
phi
  
      

“One of the fundamental effects of the orchestra-
tion of habitus is the production of a common-
sense world endowed with the  secured
by consensus on the meaning (sens) of practices
and the world, in other words the harmonization
of agents’ experiences and the continuous rein-
forcement that each of them receives from the ex-
pression, individual or collective (in festivals, for
example), improvised or programmed (common-
places, sayings), of similar or identical experienc-


   
conceptions of phi  
      
     
     
       
    The
       

     
Phi Krasue’s local

      




 

  Phi Krasue  
       
 
Phi-Kasü
Phi-Kasü’s inclination
         
       
         

Phi-Kasü
       
       
        

     
groups are usually located on different scales of sociocul
       
      
     

     

       

 Phi Krasue   
    Phi Xamop desig


  Phi Krasue’s


phi

    
   
      Tham-
op    Thamop and Phi Krasue are
      
   
    Thamop
   
phiPhi Krasue
      
  Thamop     
      

anthropological accounts of Phi Krasue’s ghostly
     

      

Thamop and Phi Kra-
sue

 
       
    
derstanding of the cultural logic structuring a local
     
       
     



    


Phi Krasue/Thamop

sok prok
 Phi Krasue        
        

these phi
      
tral Thai ghostlore and their recognition of (PhiThamop in
   


       
th
 Sok prok       

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DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
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Thamop and Phi Krasue  
     
     
        
    
     
    
     
     

      
      

      
tion of Phi Krasue’s    
th      
      
      Phi
Krasue       

sok prok
      
 Phi Krasue’s
      
sok prok

Phi Krasue
khi
 


       


Phi Krasue’s



 
Phi Krasue 
      


as Phi Krasue’s
“Frogs, , are special. They are frequently gath-
-
Phi Krasue and
   Thamop    
Phi Pop
class of phi
  lap or koy    
        
  
      
        

  
      
kai ban

lieved to be the cause of many illnesses. For some
people it is , de-merit, or a loss of possible
  
as , smelly and causing wounds. This
is something frogs share with other kinds of am-
biguous or ‘dirty’ animals such as chicken.” (Tran-
kell 1995, 99)25
    
      
sok prok
  
khi
      
   

 

 

     


    

     
    

     

       

   
        
      
 The Thai idi


       

    
of ban      
    
as proper defecatory spaces and therefore as Phi
Krasue’s


   

       
 Phi Krasue   
 



  

    
the khlongs
ban

DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 11

       
Phi Krasue
   
   
       
  
Phi Krasue



The introduction of toilets throughout the coun
  
 

th       
    
     
  
       
    Heimlichkeit—in the
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       
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      
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        
 
    
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       
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       
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  das
Unheimliche  
       
   Heimlichkeit   
    Heimlichkeit    
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  heimlich
das Unheimliche
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
     
features characterizing Phi Krasue’s 


Phi Krasue’s nightly
  
     

      

   Phi Krasue in any greater detail
    
   

      

in Phi Krasue
 
      
          
th
essential aspect of Phi Krasue’s
Krasue Sao
Figure 3.  iconic ghostly image of  with
the drawn-out intestines (dir. S. Naowarat, 1973)
     
Phi Krasue’s
Tamnan Krasue’s un

    
phi
Phi Lak Sai
    


      
       

 
of Phi Krasue
  
sok prok

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Figure 4. Tamnan Krasue-
phi
Phi Krasue
       sok
prok  Phi Krasue’s    

Sok prok
   
       Sok
prok     

 
    

      
sok prok


ABJECTION: TRANSLATING THE CULTURAL LOGIC
STRUCTURING PHI KRASUE’S SYMBOLISM
Phi Krasue’s

 
     
       
     
  


  
    
       



    
         
        

   
 

      
    
   
     
   
      
      
      
      
      

        
        


  


     

“It describes the process of throwing away or
casting aside a part of the self through which the
self comes into being. It is by ridding oneself of
the abject—a something that fails to be entire-
ly named or captured—that one becomes a self
        
      -
ously creates the borders of the self as an object
and makes possible the self as a subject. Identity
begins, in other words, with abjection.” (Bubandt
and Otto 2010, 6)


      
      

    
       
       
    

      

       

       

“Not me. Not that. But not nothing, either. A
“something” that I do not recognize as a thing. […]
Abject. It is something rejected from which one
does not part, from which one does not protect
oneself as from an object. Imaginary uncanniness
and real threat, it beckons to us and ends up en-

    

   
 


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      
     

that haunt any identity construction that is predict

   
 
   
    
    
     
     
     
     

      
    

Phi Krasue’s
  Phi Krasue thus
    

      
  These

 
      

       
      

  
     


     Phi
Krasue    
     
  Phi Krasue    

      
     
 
     
 
     
       

dence that Phi Krasue  
       
 

khytubat
  phi ka      
      

  
analysis of the pretas


sok prok

   
 

        

    
  
     
     



 Phi Krasue’s    
      
      
     Heimlichkeit   
       



THE FILTHINESS OF SAIYASAT
    
     
      
       
     
 saiyasat
      
saiyasat
    Phi Krasue

     

saiyasat as dangers issu
     
     


  



 Saiyasat         
 
       
saiyasat
    
        

  saiyasat 
 


DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
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

     
      
Phi Krasue
saiyasatsaiyasat





 
      

“In terms of ritual materials, creating negative
power involves polluted substances. Rusty nails,
      
     
the death was sudden or caused by an accident
were cited as ingredients.” (Conway 2014, 77)

sok prok
      
       


    saiyasat
   


  
ers and their clients are usually considered guilty
       
     
    
   sok prok   
    
     
as Phi Krasue’s



Phi Krasue’s  


      
       
      

       
 Phi Krasue’s



sane ya faed
   saiyasat   
Phi Krasue
Heimlichkeit 
     
      

      
    

 
        
  
   
     Phi Krasue’s 
       
      


saiyasat
 
    Phi Krasue


        
     

Phi Krasue is an ideal and logically coher
  

       

TAMNAN KRASUE—INTRODUCING THE KHMER
WITCH AS THE ‘HORROR WITHIN’
Tamnan Krasue’s     
“Demonic Beauty


       
      
       
        
 
  


     
 Phi Krasue’s elongated

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Figure 5. Some of  idiosyncratic ghostly features in
 (dir. Bin Banleurit, 2002)
      
  

  
      
 
  
      
  Phi Krasue    
    
    
     
 Phi Krasue 
   
reiterate Phi Krasue’s
  
   Apsara
    

unalom

 
    Phi Krasue Tamnan
Krasue         Phi
Krasue’s     

   Apsara as “a category of fe


Apsaras
   
         
Apsaras are easily
       
         


    


 “The unalom
     
  unalom
    yant  
(khathaKhom script
       Khom is

fact that Khom 




   


it?
Figure 6.  depicts the  princess as an Apsara
(dir. Bin Banleurit, 2002)
    

   

  Phi Krasue is an unintended result of

  
ence of Thamop      
       
Tamnan Krasue’s

    phi  Phi
Krasue  
      
   
    
     
  

    
     



          
        
  

use the category to identify the population of the neigh
       
      
    relationale Ausdrücke 
       
  
     

Khom
   
   
kalathesa       


DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 16
     
      
        
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  
        

       
     
  

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      

     
  

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

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

with original English subtitles (dir. Paul Spurrier, 2005)

      
      

Tamnan Krasue’s 

        
     



  
    phi through the prac



        

“Among the neighbouring countries of Southeast
Asia, none seems more similar to Thailand than
Cambodia … Both nations share similar customs,
traditions, beliefs, and ways of life. This is espe-
cially true of royal customs, language, writing
systems, vocabulary, literature, and the dramatic
arts.” (Charnvit 2003)


       
      
      

     
       
  

       Tam-
nan Krasue

      
Phi Krasue
      
      

 
      
    
 
Phi Krasue
    Phi Krasue’s 
       

       
       


“The reasons for the special horror of the abject
within are twofold. One is that the abject with-
in is less viewable and so less easy to cope with.
The other is the threatening possibility that one’s
sense of identity will be lost.” (Goodnow 2010, 34)



     
    
      
  Phi Krasue’s   

crisis?

DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 17
DEMONIZATION: REDRAWING SOCIO-CULTURAL
BOUNDARIES THROUGH INVERSION IN TIMES OF
CRISIS
      
     
      
       
   
        

     



      
     
     






Bangrajan
and Suriyothai
      

    



“While Burma was a true historical entity, it is at
the same time an allegory of colonial power in
modern Thai historiography. The entire narrative
of Thai wars against Burma is allegorical. A huge
proportion of historical enterprise in Thailand is
an investment in this historiographic allegory.”
(Thongchai 2011, 38)
      
    

      
      

     

       

      
    
      
     
      
    

Khom      


“In times of social crisis, which was, and contin-
ues to be the case in Thailand since the Asian eco-
nomic crisis in 1997, when national identities and
geo-political space are threatened, there is an im-
mediate concern (indeed anxiety) with maintain-
ing existing bodily boundaries and the purity of
bodies.” (Taylor 2001, 13)
    
       
      
   



    

    

    
    

     
     
 
        

     

    
        Tam-
nan Krasue
Apsara into the uncanny
Thai Phi KrasueTamnan Kra-
sue’s      
phi
 





       
    
Phi Krasue  Phi Krasue as its
     
    






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CONCLUSION: DEMONIZING THE KHMER BY
KHMERIZING A DEMON
“(…) [T]he purpose of myth is to provide a logi-
cal model capable of overcoming a contradiction
(…).” (Lévi-Strauss 1963, 229)

Phi Krasue’s
     
      
Phi Krasue

  
     
       
     
 
   
     
   
       

     
      
   



“Comparing nationalist beliefs in Sri Lanka and
Australia, he [Kapferer 1988] observes that “these
ideologies contain logical elements relevant to the
way human beings within their historical worlds
are existentially constituted” (p. 19). In this view,
instantiations of idiosyncratic variation, the ul-
     
linked to underlying structural paradigms: “no
tradition is constructed or invented and discon-
tinuous with history. . . [they] are chosen because
       
make sense and condense a logic of ideas which
may also be integrated to the people who make
      -
tive consciousness” (p. 211).” (Fischer 1999, 479)
     phi thus has to


     
    
      
Phi Krasue’s
   
      
      



    
   Phi Krasue’s    th
     Tamnan Kra-
sue    
     

     
    

      
      
    
       

      Phi
Krasue’s 
 
      

     
        
in Phi KrasueTamnan Krasue
  

      



  Tam-
nan Krasue
    







Tamnan Krasue




BENJAMIN BAUMANN is a socio-cultural anthropologist
whose research focuses on the link between popular
religion and sociocultural identities in the Thai-Cambo-
dian borderlands. His thematic foci include spirit-medi-
umship, magic, witchcraft, death, and vernacular ghost-
-
tation “Ghosts of Belonging: Searching for Khmerness in
Rural Buriram,” an ethnography based on an extended
         
rural Buriram province of Thailand’s lower Northeast.
Benjamin is a lecturer and research associate at Hum-
boldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Institute of Asian and Afri-
can Studies and a member of the DORISEA network.
CONTACT benjamin.baumann@staff.hu-berlin.de

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Horror Studies
Outline of a Theory of Prac-
tice

  
Nebulosa—Zeitschrift für Sichtbarkeit und
Sozialität
      
Experiments
in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary
Anthropology      


  Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remem-
brance and Relatedness

   

  About the House: Lévi-Strauss and
Beyond      
    

      
    
Religion and Society:
Advances in Research
    
      
     

     
    Kyoto Review
of Southeast Asia   


  
Journal of
the Siam Society
      
 
     



 Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies

 Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life 

     

     
 
  Critical Asian Studies  

  ai Magic: Arts of the Super-
natural in the Shan States and Lan Na.

      
   
Screen

Fear With-
out Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe
 


      
Ethnology

      
      


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Routledge Handbook of Her-
itage in Asia      


   Theory Culture
Society

Witchcraft
Confessions and Accusations   

   Proceedings of the Royal
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland
Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology.

 Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept
of Pollution and Taboo.    

    Der Mythos vom Zivilisa-
tionsprozess: Nacktheit und Scham.

  Individualismus—Zur Ideolo-
gie der Moderne

   Über den Prozeß der Zivilisa-
tion: Soziogenetische und psychogenetische Un-
tersuchungen—Erster Band 

   Feldforschung—Vom liter-
arischen Berichten zur methodisch angeleitet-
en qualitativen und quantitativen Forschung.

     
      
Imagined Difference: Hatred and
the Construction of Identity   



Engaging the Spirit World: Popular Be-
liefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia


      
  
Current Anthropology

Journal of the Siam Socie-
ty
     
 Psychologische Schriften,    


    

      Discourse


Critique of Anthropology
An Anthropology of Curing in
Multiethnic Thailand. 

  Kristeva in Focus: From
Theory to Film Analysis    

     
      Media
Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
     

       
Cornell Thailand Project Interim Re-
ports Series  

       
   
      
Southeast Asia Research
      
CSGR
Working Paper


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
   Symbolic and Structural Ar-
chaeology    


      
   Engaging the
Spirit World: Popular Beliefs and Practices in
Modern Southeast Asia


      
     
     




 
Mankind
Paths Toward a Clearing—
Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry.
  


     
   South East Asia Research

       Sojourn

     
       
Asian Studies Review
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DORISEA Working Paper, ISSUE 19, 2015, ISSN: 2196-6893
Competence Network DORISEA – Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia 21


stDORISEA
Working Paper Series
Lost Goddesses: The Denial of
Female Power in Cambodian History. 

 
 
Cultural Anthropology
     
      
     
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
     
So-
cial Analysis
Legends of People Myths of State: Violence,
Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and
Australia.

   
House of Glass: Culture, Modernity,
and the State in Southeast Asia   

      

Cultur-
al Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Iden-
tity in Thailand and Laos   
  

    
       
 Horror International   
      

     
     East Asian Cin-
emas: Exploring Transnational Connections on
Film     

Powers of Horror: An Essay on
Abjection
 The Kristeva Reader   

Strangers to Ourselves. 

 Thok Khamen. 
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Cultural
Theory and Popular Culture—A Reader 
      




  Engaging the Spirit World: Popular



History of Shit

Culture and Communication:
The Logic by which Symbols are Connected. An
Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis
in Social Anthropology.  

Structural Anthropology

       The Structural
Study of Myth and Totemism

Mythologica I: Das Rohe und das Gekochte.


 Spirits in Culture,
History, and Mind    




MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities
Regular
   Strukturen des Denkens

      
    South East Asia Re-
search

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
 The Lovelorn Ghost and the
Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern
Thailand.

   Magic and Moder-
nity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
       

In the Place of Origins: Mo-
dernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand.

   Medusa’s Hair: An
Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Expe-
rience.      


 
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
     
     The Am-
biguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial
in Thailand
     



Engaging the Spirit
World: Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern

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      
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  Lords of Things: The Fash-
ioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Image

   The Tacit Dimension 

The Jour-
nal of the Siam Society
Journal of the
Siam Society
   Kaleidoskopische Dialektik:
Kritische Theorie nach dem Aufstieg des globalen
Südens
  The Ancestral Lords
     

  Islands of History. 

       Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute  

    Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute 
      
     Culture-Bound Syn-
dromes, Ethnopsychiatry, and Alternative Thera-
pies

     
      
  Medical
Anthropology Quarterly

       
Cul-
ture, Health & Sexuality
Linguistic Diversity and Na-
tional Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand

Tamnan Phi Thai


Sinlapawatthan-
atham 
     
        
Directions in Cognitive Anthro-
pology  

      
 
    South East Asia
Research
Buriram Ma Chak Nai?


Ethnology
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East
Thailand   
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 

 Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Moderni-
ty and Identity in Thailand and Laos  
     

      
   South East Asia Re-
search

Journal of Global Buddhism

   Monks and Magic—Revis-
iting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in
Thailand
Roster of the Gods: An Ethnog-
raphy of the Supernatural in a Thai Village

    
At the Edge of the For-
est: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative
in Honor of David Chandler
     

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   Siam Mapped, a His-
tory of the Geo-Body of a Nation. 


     
  Civility and Savagery: Social Identity
in Tai States     

       
Southeast Asian Historiogra-
phy Unravelling the Myths: Essays in Honour of
Barend Jan Terwiel

  
   ymbolic and
Structural Archaeology    

      
  
     

       
     
    ANTHRO-
POS
     
Natural symbols in South-
East Asia    
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 
Thai Constructions of Knowledge   

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  
Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States
    
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   
   
International Journal of the Sociology of Lan-
guage
      
  
  Asian Ethnicity 


Anthro-
pos
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South East Asia Research
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   Lap Luang Phrang Phak
Phisadan
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  Spirited Politics: Religion and Public
Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia  
     
    
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     Man
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       
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Krasue Sao
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   P   
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   Bang Rajan  
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