Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”

Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”

© 2015 ISEAS. Growing recognition of the contested nature of heritage has prompted critical reassessments of official heritage discourses and the demand for more inclusive heritage processes. Field research in Surin, Thailand, reveals the challenges of implementing participatory approaches in a cont...

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Main Author: Denes A.
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Published: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2015
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Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-391622015-06-16T08:14:45Z Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture” Denes A. Anthropology Sociology and Political Science © 2015 ISEAS. Growing recognition of the contested nature of heritage has prompted critical reassessments of official heritage discourses and the demand for more inclusive heritage processes. Field research in Surin, Thailand, reveals the challenges of implementing participatory approaches in a context in which the concept of cultural heritage is employed to domesticate the nation’s ethnic Others. The history of state-sponsored, folklorized performances of the ethnic Khmer genre of kantruem demonstrates the ways in which the recent listing of kantruem on Thailand’s national registry of “intangible culture” elides histories of cross-border linkage with Cambodia and meanings of kantruem as a site of memory and affect. 2015-06-16T08:14:45Z 2015-06-16T08:14:45Z 2015-01-01 Article 02179520 2-s2.0-84929628434 10.1355/sj30-1a http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84929628434&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/39162 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
institution Chiang Mai University
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topic Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
spellingShingle Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
Denes A.
Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
description © 2015 ISEAS. Growing recognition of the contested nature of heritage has prompted critical reassessments of official heritage discourses and the demand for more inclusive heritage processes. Field research in Surin, Thailand, reveals the challenges of implementing participatory approaches in a context in which the concept of cultural heritage is employed to domesticate the nation’s ethnic Others. The history of state-sponsored, folklorized performances of the ethnic Khmer genre of kantruem demonstrates the ways in which the recent listing of kantruem on Thailand’s national registry of “intangible culture” elides histories of cross-border linkage with Cambodia and meanings of kantruem as a site of memory and affect.
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title Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
title_short Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
title_full Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
title_fullStr Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
title_full_unstemmed Folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: Intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
title_sort folklorizing northern khmer identity in thailand: intangible cultural heritage and the production of “good culture”
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