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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Khmer"”.
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English-Khmer medical dictionary
… work in conjunction with native speakers of Khmer in the country of Cambodia for a period of over one year (including several months in Thailand), eliciting glosses and compiling definitions in the Cambodian (Khmer) language of English medical terms to be studied by Cambodian nursing …
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A grammatical sketch of Brao, a Mon-Khmer language
… the grammatical descriptions of two other Mon-Khmer languages and showing points of comparison and contrast. These descriptions are of Chrau and Sedang and are written by David D. Thomas and Kenneth D. Smith, respectively. Supportive Brao data is mainly taken from the language lessons appended …
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Process of Health Care Decision Making Among Khmer Immigrants
… and behavior as reported by 30 Cambodian (Khmer) refugee women in Southern California. Utilizing in-home interviewing in the Khmer language, data was gathered on 226 illness episodes occurring among 157 family members over an eight-month span. Informants reported a strong maternal role in …
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… is an investigation into the US response to the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1974 and 1981. It argues that the US experience in the Vietnam War acted as a causal factor in the formulation of its Cambodian policy during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. From taking power …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, local practices of divination, magic and spirit veneration have increased in diversity and popularity in Cambodia, including in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Although modern urban Khmers embody a cosmopolitan lifestyle, the way they see and make sense of the …
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Khmer Ways of Seeing, Migration and Divinatory Improvisation in Phnom Penh
Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, local practices of divination, magic and spirit veneration have increased in diversity and popularity in Cambodia, including in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Although modern urban Khmers embody a cosmopolitan lifestyle, the way they see and make sense of the …
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Challenging Khmer citizenship : minorities, the state, and the international community in Cambodia
… with reference to the ethnicity of the Khmer majority and have - often violently - enforced this conception through the assimilation of highland peoples and the Cham and the exclusion of ethnic Vietnamese and Chinese. Cambodia’s current constitution, too, defines citizenship ethnically. …
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A description of Jruq (Loven) : a Mon-Khmer language of the Lao PDR
This thesis is a description of Jruq, a Mon-Khmer language of mainland Southeast Asia. It is a minority language spoken in the Champassak, Attapeu and Saravane provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The investigation is based predominantly on the data I collected during four …
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A description of Jruq (Loven) : a Mon-Khmer language of the Lao PDR
This thesis is a description of Jruq, a Mon-Khmer language of mainland Southeast Asia. It is a minority language spoken in the Champassak, Attapeu and Saravane provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The investigation is based predominantly on the data I collected during four …
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Religious imagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada : the significance of images for education
Through a qualitative case study of the Khmer Pagoda of Canada and its visual media, this thesis examines the significance and meaning of the Khmer Temple and its religious imagery for members of the Cambodian Buddhist community. This research study involved formal and informal interviews, …
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Seeing red : American foreign policy towards Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1982
Between 1979 and 1982 the US supported the Khmer Rouge in the refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border, in the Security Council of the United Nations, and in behind-closed-doors discussions seeking to ensure a place for the Khmer Rouge (as an armed force) in a coalition government. The US …
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Set in Stone? A Landscape and Material Approach to Provincial Power in the Khmer Empire
… material-based analysis of temples within the Khmer Empire. Rather than treating Khmer power as a static or centrally imposed resource, this study conceptualizes it as emerging from the interplay among elite authority, agrarian economies, and religious ideology. Temples served as the primary …
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Dragon Moon, Rooster Sun
… these poems focus on the 1st generation Khmer-American experience and how such an individual can access cultural memory (or not) and how this leads to exploring a multitude of ways to reimagine and reinvent the past and present through the work of poetry. The poems move between personal …
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A phonological reconstruction of Proto-East-Katuic
… in the historical reconstruction of Proto Mon-Khmer is the great diversity between the modern descendants. This paper proposes to simplify that problem by reconstructing the East-Katuic branch of the Mon-Khmer family. </p> <p> Three languages are compared: Brou, Pacoh, and Katu. Because of gaps …
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Various forms of colonialism : the social and spatial reorganisation of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
… and spatial organisation of the Brao, a Mon-Khmer language-speaking ethnic group whose approximately 60,000 members reside mainly in the provinces of Attapeu and Champasak, in the southern-most part of Laos; and Ratanakiri and Stung Treng, in the northeastern-most part of Cambodia. Divided …
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Effects of Parental Trauma Experience on Second Generation Cambodian Americans
… examined the effects of parental trauma from the Khmer Rouge (Cambodian genocide), on SGCA in relation to SGCA's mental health status, parent-child communication, cohesion, flexibility, and academic achievements. This study was conceptualized through the effects of intergenerational trauma. A …
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Cambodia 1991-94: hierarchy, neutrality and etiquettes of discourse
… Cambodian conventions of social hierarchy, Khmer linguistic etiquette, and the discourse of the Cambodian news media as they have changed in relation to social and political change in recent years. Specific chapters focus on hierarchically marked pronouns and terms of address, satirical …
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