IS BN 978-974-605-708-0
WL Order Code 21 932
US$24.00
Patani 1996, 153 pp., 160 x 240 mm, pbk.
Antetelme, Michel; La Réappropriation en Khmer: De Mots Empruntés
par la Langue Siamoise au Vieux Khmer
Le voisinage entre Khmers et Siamois est séculaire. Ces deux sociétés, aux
rapports tumultueux et féconds, se sont influencées réciproquement au cours de
l’histoire et relèvent de la même aire de civilisation et de culture.
Cet ouvrage
s’intéresse à un aspect de leurs relations: les échanges lexicaux entre les deux
communautés, et plus précisément le parcours suivi par certains mots vieux
khmers entrés dans la langue siamoise depuis des siècles pour revenir en
khmer.
The Khmer and the Siamese have been living as neighbors for several centuries.
Over the course of history, the culture of the one has influenced the other in
a dynamic cycle of mutual exchange.
Through this often tumultuous but perpetually
productive relationship, together the two constitute a unique cultural
domain. In this study, the author brings to light one aspect of Khmer-Siamese
relations: lexicographical exchanges.
The historico-linguistic trajectory of
Khmer terms is traced as they enter the Siamese language to return centuries
later into Khmer.
IS BN 978-974-480-068-8
WL Order Code 22 447
US$30.00
Bangkok 2005, 196 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Bastian, Adolf; : A Journey in Cambodia and Cochin-China (1864).
Adolf
Bastian’s Travels in South-East Asia: Vol. 3
This volume covers Dr Adolf Bastian’s journey from the border of present‑day
Thailand to present‑day Saigon. Bastian was a renowned ethnographer, who
founded both Berlin’s Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnological Museum) and
the Berlin Anthropological Society, and his work contains valuable observations
and interpretations by one of the pioneers of ethnography.
During his
travels through Isan and parts of Cambodia then under Siamese rule, as well as
while in Saigon, the author observes, describes and records almost every aspect
of the spiritual life of various groups of people he meets.
Bastian compares the
situation in these regions and among different ethnic groups, frequently using
Siamese terms to do so.
This thorough and indefatigable German scholar is one
of the early visitors to the temple of Angkor Wat, which he calls “Nakhon Vat”,
witnessing its structures before they started to get looted.
He describes other
edifices built by Cambodia’s many ethnic groups, monastery slaves, and the
Siamese administration of Cambodian territory. Bastian takes a special interest
in the Cham people, presenting valuable information not found elsewhere.
Life
is described here in its manifold expressions and interactions, analyzed by a
profound mind that had studied law at the University of Heidelberg and natural
science as well as medicine in Berlin, Jena, and Würzburg.
IS BN 978-974-8496-95-5
WL Order Code 21 949
US$26.00
Bangkok 1997, 422 pp., 42 pp. illus., 12 pp.
in color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Bekaert, Jacques; Cambodian Diary, Vol. 1: Tales of a Divided Nation,1983–1986
The diaries cover the turbulent and dramatic recent history of Cambodia (1983–
1986). We see a country emerging from the disaster of the Khmer Rouge era,
only to find itself embroiled in a protracted war.
This first volume discusses the
ups and downs of the resistance, the secretive life of the communist party, the
suffering of the people, the emergence of new leaders, like Prince Ranariddh
and Hun Sen, and the continuous efforts of Prince Sihanouk to bring peace to
his troubled land.
The diary moves, week after week, from the Thai-Cambodian
border to Hanoi, Beijing, Bangkok, Paris or Washington and of course to
Phnom Penh and the Cambodian countryside.
From the Khmer Rouge to bornagain
capitalists, from low intensity conflict to international intrigues, here is a
first hand history of contemporary Cambodia.
IS BN 978-974-8434-16-6
WL Order Code 22 011
US$29.00
Bangkok 1998, 512 pp., 56 pp. illus., 16 pp.
in color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Bekaert, Jacques; Cambodian Diary, Vol. 2: A Long Road to Peace, 1987–
1993
Volume 2 describes how first the People’s Republic of Kampuchea of Heng Samrin
appears and disappears and, then, how Hun Sen abandons communism and
the capitalist State of Cambodia emerges.
And as a constant feature throughout,
there are the people, main actors and front line victims of the drama.
IS BN 978-2-85539-302-5
WL Order Code 21 776
US$27.00
Bangkok 1995, 236 pp., 180 x 260 mm,
pbk.
Bizot, Francois and Oskar von Hinüber; : La Guirlande de Joyaux
This text, known as Ratanamālā in Pāli, is a poem comprised of 108 syllables
giving homage to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.
The Buddha himself
was said to have prescribed the recitation of syllables from this text as a
means of protection.
These syllables are memorized by Buddhists in the form of
mantras and their graphical representation has produced a host of elaborate pro18
tective diagrams. This book provides the original Khmer and Pali texts, along
with a French translation and commentary.
It also includes a section showing
the usage of these syllables in mantras and diagrams.
IS BN 978-974-8434-93-3
WL Order Code 22 078
US$35.00
Bangkok 1999, repr. from 1951, 1974; 307
pp., fully illus., 12 pp. in color, 210 x 300
mm, pbk.
Briggs, Lawrence Palmer; : The Ancient Khmer Empire
This is a source book of early Khmer civilization, covering its art and architecture
during the Funan (first century to c. 550), and Chenla (c. 550–802)
periods, culminating with the Angkor period (802–1432) when the disastrous
sacking of the capital by the Siamese in 1431 effectively brought this culture to
a close.
This source book is illustrated with numerous photographs, maps, and
floor plans as well as dynastic genealogies of this great culture.
In this reprint
some illustrations from the Garnier Mission and Le Monde Illustré have been
added.
IS BN 978-974-480-085-5
WL Order Code 22 490
US$59.00
Bangkok 2006, 261 pp., illus. 48 pp., in col.
210 x 300 mm, pbk.
Falser, Michael S.: The Pre-Angkorian Temple of Preah Ko
A Source book
of the History, Construction and Ornamentation of the Preah Ko Style
The temple of Preah Ko, built in the 9th century AD, represents a unique transition
point between the Pre-Angkorian and the Angkorian periods.
It is undoubtedly
one of the most important temple structures in Khmer architecture, if not
in whole South-East Asia.
This temple gave a whole range of 9th century temples
their stylistic group name, Preah Ko-Style. Despite its importance, Preah Ko
was rarely acknowledged in detail in academic literature.
This work analyses Preah Ko in its historical, archaeological, architectural,
stylistic and contemporary social and religious questions.
Together with its
unique collection of illustrations, it serves as an ideal source book of the Preah
Ko-Style.
IS BN 978-3-608-76264-8
WL Order Code 6 621
US$117.00
Stuttgart 1988, 253 pp., illus. in color 235
x 320 mm
Felten, Wolfgang and Martin Lerner ; Thai and Cambodian Sculpture
This book brings together previously unpublished Cambodian, Thai and
Vietnamese stone and bronze sculptures from nine centuries—from the style
of Phnom Da, the mysterious mountain temple in the Mekong Delta, to the
style of the Bayon, the apogee of Cambodian architecture.
Selected from wellestablished
private collections and museums all over the world, these forty-one
sculptures, all of extra-ordinary quality, demonstrate how the highly developed
civilization in Southeast Asia generated a power and aesthetic of its own.
IS BN 978-974-7534-22-1
WL Order Code 22 170
US$54.00
Bangkok 2000, first English trans. of 1926;
228 pp., 78 pp. illus., 270 x 370 mm
Finot, Louis; Henri Parmentier & Victor Goloubew; A Guide to the Temple of
Banteay Srei at Angkor
Originally published in 1926, this is the first study of the temple that many
consider the crown jewel of the entire Angkor Wat complex.
Written a decade
after the temple’s rediscovery, these three groundbreaking essays by eminent
French scholars discuss its architecture, iconography, history, and dating.
The
section on the Sanskrit and Khmer inscriptions found at the site is an invaluable
tool for understanding this period of Khmer history and for illuminating
aspects of its religious and daily life.
Line drawings and photographs illustrate
the study. Indispensable for the specialist, the volume will also appeal to the
general reader interested in Southeast Asian architecture, history, and religion.
IS BN 978-974-480-027-5
WL Order Code X 810
US$62.00
Paris 1931, probably a later reprint, 130 pp.,
50 pp. illus., 225 x 300 mm
Groslier, George; : Les Collections Khmères du Musée Albert Sarraut à
Phnom Penh
This book contributes to the study of Khmer archeology, displaying the best
pieces of the Phnom Penh museum on fifty splendid plates.
The Albert Sarraut
Museum, set up in 1919, is the national museum of Cambodia. Apart from a
few rare exceptions, it preserves only Cambodian works found in the country
itself, from those that can be dated to the most distant epochs to those which are
produced nowadays by artists working in a renaissance style.
Thus, because of
its unity and diversity, it allows the reader to obtain an overview of the evolution
of Khmer genius, whether in the production of statues, decorative sculpture,
ceramics, bronze and precious metals art, pure or iconographic plastic arts,
epigraphy, or history.
IS BN 978-974-480-043-5
WL Order Code 22 362
US$30.00
Bangkok 2004, 292 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Heder, Steve;Cambodia Communism and the Vietnamese Model. Vol. 1:
Imitation and Independence, 1930–1975
This work demonstrates that the portrayal of the Khmer Rouge as a movement
led by French-educated intellectuals hostile to Vietnamese Communism is fundamentally
flawed.
Based on Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese Communist documents
and interviews, the book shows the two movements were much closer to
each other than either of the two ever admitted.
The French-educated Khmer
Rouge leader, Pol Pot, was deeply influenced by the Vietnamese, whilst the
often dominant Vietnamese-trained Brother Number Two, Nuon Chea, made
crucial decisions.
French degree holders like Khieu Samphan played marginal
roles compared to Vietnamese-trained cadres.
Vietnamese Communist doctrine
is key to understanding the ideology of the Khmer Rouge, who were driven by a
desire to imitate but independently outdo Vietnamese successes, to prove Cambodians
were better Communists than Vietnamese.
This launched the Khmer
Rouge on a disastrous trajectory of believing they were the best Communists in
the world.
With a foreword by David P. Chandler, this book takes the story to
1975.
The second volume “Pol Pot at Bay: The 1991 Paris Agreements and the
Return to People’s War” will describe how Pol Pot’s and Nuon Chea’s imita-
We carry a variety of 19th century French prints
from Le Petit Journal, and other french magazines
on Cambodia and neighboring countries, some with
original colors, some hand colored and some in the
original black and white form
tion of Vietnamese doctrine continued into the early 1990s, when they tried to
follow a Vietnamese-inspired path, to retake power with the help of the United
Nations, but were foiled by a lack of popular support.
IS BN 978-074-8434-43-5
WL Order Code 22 023
US$23.00
Bangkok 1998, 296 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Jennar, Raoul M.: Cambodian Chronicles,Vol. 1: Bungling a
Peace Plan 1989–1991.
This first volume brings together all the reports (both published and unpublished)
written by Raoul Marc Jennar on Cambodia’s political, economic,
military and diplomatic situation from the beginning of the peace talks until
the signing of the Paris Agreement in 1991.
It was these reports that contained
the first announcements of various major developments affecting the route
towards peace.
These included, in 1990, the ending of Soviet Bloc aid to the
Phnom Penh regime; the conflict in the same year between the two main wings
of the Communist party in power and the end to the opening up of the political
spectrum; the economic colonization of Cambodia by unscrupulous Thai
businessmen; and the continuation, after the signing of the Paris Agreement
in 1991, of the collaboration between some elements of the Thai military and
industrial establishment and the Khmer Rouge.
These reports were also the first
to denounce the shortcomings, the contradictions and the weaknesses of the
Agreements that were being negotiated.
IS BN 978-974-8496-36-8
WL Order Code 21 794
US$15.00
Bangkok 1995, 150 pp., 130 x 200 mm,
pbk.
Jennar, Raoul M.; The Cambodian Constitutions (1953–1993)
This book examines the six constitutions Cambodia has had since its independence
in 1953.
What are the Cambodian institutions today?
What are the
powers of the King?
How is the succession to the throne ensured in an elective
monarchy?
Are human rights protected in a country where the worst of crimes
against humanity have been committed?
How independent is the judiciary?
The
new Constitution, promulgated on 24 September 1993, answers these questions.
This collection, where each of the fundamental laws is placed in its historical
perspective, includes the founding texts of the first independent Cambodian
Kingdom, the Khmer Republic of Field Marshal Lon Nol, Democratic Kampuchea
of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, Heng Samrin’s People’s Republic of
Kampuchea, and Hun Sen’s State of Cambodia.
IS BN 978-974-480-097-8
WL Order Code 22 514
US$45.00
Bangkok 2007, 240 pp., text fully illus. 102
pp., b&W photos, 30 pp color illus, 210 x
295 mm, pbk.
Kapur, Pradeep Kumar & Sachidanand Sahai; Ta Prohm: A Glorious Era in
Angkor Civilisation
The authors offers a new look at the biography of Jayavarman VII, focusing
on the ideology of abnegation followed by this Angkorian monarch.
With his
well-developed policy of public welfare, the king surpassed the contemporary
European kings.
The monograph shows how Ta Prohm was intricately connected
with the royal welfare programs, since its foundations stele describes in
detail the assistance given to the hospitals from the royal treasury.
The monograph presents the temple of Ta Prohm in the context of Cambodian
history, as the first dated temple of the reign of Jayavarman VII (1186),
symbolizing the perfect wisdom in Khmer civilization with the mother of the
king represented as Prajnaparamita, the mother of the Buddha.
The monastic and spiritual life at the temple has been graphically reconstructed
through a closer study of the inscriptions of Ta Prohm. Impressive
annual and daily grants offered by the royal treasury to sustain the spiritual life
of the kingdom have been meticulously detailed.
A systematic study of restoration policy has been made in the context of
over a hundred years of practical experience at the sites of Angkor.
It has been
argued that Ta Prohm can be a useful test case for the refinement of ideology
and techniques of restoration based on the criteria of authenticity.
This first
monograph-length study of the most enigmatic temple of Angkor complex
offers an indispensable reading both for the visitors and specialists interested in
unlocking the puzzles of Angkor art
No IS BN
WL Order Code 8 800
US$25.00
Narendrapur 1977, 2002 2nd ed; 302 pp., 13
pp., illus. 185 x 240 mm, pbk.
Kar, Amina Ahmed; The Angkorian Records
The author uncovers sources of Cambodian Culture and traces them to pre-Islamic
Iranian roots.
She postulates Iranian elements in the literature, epigraphs, and art of
Cambodia in particular and South -East Asia in general.
To give an example: “The
moon as an epiphany identifiable with the king is indicated by several inscriptions.
Indian veneration for the ‘moon’ is well-known.
But here the description of the
rays of the moon as ‘the giver of justice’ directly refers to an Iranian concept of ‘the
light of the moon as the instrument of justice’ writes Bratindra Nath Mukherjee
and concludes “. . . her broad hypothesis seems to be now well substantiated. She
indeed opened up a new avenue of research.
It is now the bounden duty of historians
of south-east Asia to search further down the avenue.”
IS BN 978-974-8434-09-4
WL Order Code 21 971
US$22.00
Bangkok 1997, 343 pp., 18 pp. illus. 6 pp. in
color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Mehta, Harish C.; Cambodia Silenced—The Press Under Six Regimes
The is first book on the history of the Khmer press and its struggle for existence
under six regimes since the 1930s.
The press survived colonial rule, a major
coup, genocide, civil war, and Vietnamese occupation.
The press was censored
and shut down, Khmer journalists were threatened, attacked, and murdered, and
several foreign correspondents were captured and killed while covering the civil
war.
The French denied newspapers licenses to publish, and an equally docile
press existed under Sihanouk’s rule.
Sihanouk wrote arcane and elegant editorials
in his journals to rebut criticism in the foreign press about his style of governance.
The Lon Nol regime subjected the press to heavy-handed censorship and
the Khmer Rouge, on seizing power, shut it down ahead of the genocide.
The
Heng Samrin regime’s journals were never allowed to stray from the official line.
Newsmen were still being attacked and murdered after the royal government
came to power in 1993, and journalism remained a dangerous profession.
IS BN 978-974-480-098-5
WL Order Code 22 513
US$33.00
Bangkok 2007, 160 pp., 48 pp. illus., 32 pp.
in color, 210 x 295 mm, pbk.
Sahai, Sachchidanand;The Bayon of Angkor Thom
This book offers offers an in-depth analysis of the temple which holds the key
to the understanding of Khmer civilization.
Its role as the geometric centre of
the city of Angkor Thom and as a veritable microcosm of the Khmer world
has been lucidly explained in this monograph.
How did this center-piece of
the Angkor art gradually succumb to the dense tropical forest after Angkor
was abandoned in the fifteenth century?
How did it re-emerge as a bewildering
complex of face-towers as a result of a century of patient research and restoration?
The monograph addresses a number of such crucial questions.
This enigmatic creation of Angkor art has been studied in its manifold
dimensions, critically analyzing the Sanskrit and Khmer epigraphic sources
and extensive secondary sources available exclusively in French scholarly writings,
and providing an easier access to the vast technical literature to both the
general readers and researchers.
In a lucid and straightforward style with a firm grip over the issues
involved, the author delves deep in the process of rediscovery of the temple of
Bayon, unveiling of its layout and architectural features, the reconstitution of
its central image from innumerable fragments and the enigma of its colossal
face-towers.
As the map of the expansive Khmer empire with its complex symbolism
and exquisite bas-reliefs, the Bayon is within the reach of every inquisitive
mind.
Through the presence of the Sakabrahmana at the Bayon, the reader
will rediscover Iranian elements in Khmer civilization via Indian channels. A careful examination of ideological shifts explains how the temple served the Mahayana, Shaivite and Theravada faith in various phases of its existence.
The Bayon or the dream of a summer night under the tropics becomes a palpable
reality as the culmination of the Angkor art in this well-documented monograph
which offers an indispensable reading to every researcher and visitor to Angkor.
IS BN 978-974-8434-35-3
WL Order Code 22 027
US$21.00
Bangkok 1998, first English trans. from
1604; 220 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
San Antonio, Gabriel Quiroga de; A Brief and Truthful Relation of Events in
the Kingdom of Cambodia
This is one of the earliest accounts of Cambodia and other destination countries
of early missionaries in the region.
More specifically it is the account with which
Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio, a Dominican missionary, attempted to draw the
King of Spain into conquering the country in 1604.
The book was introduced by
the eminent French scholar, Antoine Cabaton and is translated into English, from
the French edition of 1914, for the first time.
It deals with the internal political
turmoil in Cambodia and with attempts of the Portuguese, Spanish and Siamese
to take advantage of the situation.
Within the context of the geopolitics of the
time, the author also describes other countries in which such trade rivalry was in
progress and their rulers, e.g., Siam, the Moluccas, the Kingdoms of Champa and
Cochinchina and the Philippines.
Father Gabriel de San Antonio explicitly places
his peregrinations around Asia in the context of the foundation of missionary and
trading posts.
This book is a must for scholars of Cambodia and for all those who
want to better comprehend the troubled history of this country.
IS BN 978-974-480-101-2
WL Order Code 22 516
US$20.00
Bangkok 2007, 192 pp., 1 page illus., 2
maps, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Slocomb, Margarete ; The Colons and Coolies
Recounts the history of the development of Cambodia’s rubber industry during
the 1920s and 1930s.
Using archival material from the era of the French
Protectorate, it examines how French capital combined with Khmer land and
Tonkinese labour to transform the red lands of the eastern plateaux of Cambodia
into vast plantations.
The book argues that the model of capitalistic
colonisation—rational, bureaucratic, profit-driven, and divorced from traditional
agricultural practices—established by the French remains the model for
indigenous colonisation by the ruling elite in Cambodia today for large scale
agribusinesses involving logging, fishing, cash and export crops such as palm
oil and cashews, and further rubber plantations.
IS BN 978-974-8434-48-3
WL Order Code 22 019
US$20.00
Bangkok 1998, 136 pp., 8 pp. color illus.,
150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Vann Nath; A Cambodian Prison Portrait. : One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s
S-21
The harrowing tale of a survivor of a secret prison known as Tuol Sleng or
S-21, where more than 14, 000 men, women and children were tortured and
executed during the Khmer Rouge regime.
The author is one of only a handful
of people who can describe life in the prison. Upon entering S-21 in 1977, Vann
Nath was beaten and tortured and almost starved to death.
But because of his
prior training as an artist, he was not killed: instead he was put to work painting
portraits of Pol Pot, or “Brother Number One, ” leader of the Khmer Rouge’s
cruel experiment in radical Maoism.
When Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia
and entered the capital city in January 1979, toppling the Khmer Rouge
government, Vann Nath escaped.
By that point more than one million people
throughout Cambodia had died from executions, starvation, forced labor, or
disease as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s attempt to force an agrarian revolution.
When a Museum of Genocide was created on the grounds of the former
prison at the end of 1979, Vann Nath went back to Tuol Sleng, working there for
several years.
He returned to his former craft, painting scenes of prison life so
that visitors could learn of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
His paintings hang
in the museum today. Vann Nath’s words and paintings, published here, stand
as a testimony to the horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
IS BN 978-974-7534-93-1
WL Order Code 22 278
US$45.00
Bangkok 2001, 156 pp., 91 pp. color illus.,
210 x 290 mm, pbk.
Zefferys, Marlene L., Nicolas S. Zefferys & Jeffrey Stone; Heaven and Empire:
Khmer Bronzes from the 9th to the 15th Centuries
This survey features some of the world’s finest examples of the art of the lost
wax method of bronze casting.
The superb artists of the Khmer Empire of
ancient Cambodia blended the two greatest influences of their time, Hinduism
and Buddhism, to create bronze images that reflected the religious, mystical,
and sensual beauty of this culture.
The text features bronzes from the collections
of the Phnom Penh Royal Museum of Fine Art, The National Museum
Bangkok,
The National Museum Phimai, and from private collections, many
never before published.
The volume is a must for collectors, antique dealers, art
historians, libraries, and museums as well as those interested in learning about
this magnificent art form of the Khmer Empire.
IS BN 978-974-8496-17-7
WL Order Code 21 714
US$14.00
Bangkok 1994, 153 pp., 24 pp. illus. in color,
145 x 210 mm, pbk.
Hou Mei : Radio UNTAC of Cambodia: Winning Ears, Hearts and Minds
This book offers a fascinating snapshot of Cambodia on the threshold of a new
beginning.
The United Nations’ decision to venture into broadcasting was a
groundbreaking move.
Radio UNTAC became a sensation and a household
name in Cambodia.
The contribution of Radio UNTAC to the stupendous voter
turn-out in the election cannot be quantified. It is irrefutable that radio UNTAC
played a pivotal role in convincing the electorate: “Your vote is secret.” For planners of future missions, there are invaluable lessons to be learned from the experience of Radio UNTAC as a peacekeeping tool.
For the general reader, this book offers an alternative to the microphone account of “mission” work. In the process, it records a chronicle of a country in transition as Cambodians defied the bullets and reached for peace via the ballots.
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