Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Padwe Jonathan
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Padwe Jonathan In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits…
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Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Padwe Jonathan
In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. Now back in their homeland, they have reestablished agriculture, seed by seed.Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories tells the story of violence and dispossession in the highlands from the perspective of the land itself. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, only to find themselves relocated to the "killing fields" of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Weaving rich ethnography with the history of the Jarai and their treatment at the hands of outsiders, Jonathan Padwe narrates the highlanders' successful efforts to rebuild their complex, highly diverse agricultural system after a decades-long interruption.Focusing on the ecological