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Epistemology of the Past - (New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) by Theara Thun (Hardcover)

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  • The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship.
  • About the Author: Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
  • 180 Pages
  • History, Asia
  • Series Name: New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory

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"The encounter of Indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two distinctive modes of historical presentation and their impacts on society. By examining historical discourses on Cambodia through the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence years, he presents a compelling account of Indigenous scholars, with varying perspectives, who advocated competing versions of history. Thun argues that new discourses about national history emerged by drawing on, reconfiguring, combining, or, in many cases, rejecting older discourses of precolonial historical scholarship. Epistemology of the past examines how certain types and forms of historical knowledge are created, understood, and used within a given context and how that knowledge has evolved over time. The book brings together and critically explores a large collection of original manuscripts and printed texts-notably, Khmer chronicle manuscripts and colonial-era works of French scholar-officials. Thun's analysis discloses multilayers of intellectual traditions and diverse views of Cambodian and, more broadly, Southeast Asian scholars engaging with European colonial scholarship. In addition to contributing to the multidisciplinary field of Cambodian and Southeast Asian studies, Epistemology of the past will be essential reading for those interested in intellectual history, transculturation, historiography, intertextual studies, narrative studies, literature, colonialism, and nationalism"--



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The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Theara Thun offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two distinctive modes of historical presentation and their impacts on society. By examining historical discourses on Cambodia through the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence years, he presents a compelling account of indigenous scholars, with varying perspectives, who advocated competing versions of history. Thun argues that new discourses about national history emerged by drawing on, reconfiguring, combining, or, in many cases, rejecting older discourses of precolonial historical scholarship.

Epistemology of the Past examines how certain types and forms of historical knowledge are created, understood, and used within a given context and how that knowledge has evolved over time. The book brings together and critically explores a large collection of original manuscripts and printed texts--notably, Khmer chronicle manuscripts and colonial-era works of French scholar-officials. Thun's analysis discloses multilayers of intellectual traditions and diverse views of Cambodian and, more broadly, Southeast Asian scholars engaging with European colonial scholarship. In addition to contributing to the multidisciplinary field of Cambodian and Southeast Asian studies, Epistemology of the Past will be essential reading for those interested in intellectual history, transculturation, historiography, intertextual studies, narrative studies, literature, colonialism, and nationalism.



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Epistemology of the Past offers a compelling and new portrait of the dynamic landscape of Cambodian textual production in colonial rule and of the writers, translators, and scholars who charted new ways of seeing, framing, and recording the past. Interweaving monasterial chronicles, school textbooks, court ballet, and pop culture, Theara Thun brilliantly and painstakingly reconstructs the emergence of new forms of historiography across several critical decades in Cambodia's modern history. An important contribution to scholarship on indigenous epistemologies, translation, and on the collective historical imagination.--Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley

Readers learn from this book's fascinating story about the selective appropriations, translations, and active negotiations by Khmer intellectuals in the encounters with colonial historiography. Thun tells us beyond historiography in transition but also the intellectual history of modern Cambodia.--Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison



About the Author



Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.13 Inches (H) x 6.06 Inches (W) x .94 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
Sub-Genre: Asia
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 180
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Theme: Southeast Asia
Format: Hardcover
Author: Theara Thun
Language: English
Street Date: August 31, 2024
TCIN: 92954069
UPC: 9780824897581
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-6409
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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