The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology, and Sovereignty

by Philip Taylor

The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a unique perspective on history and sovereignty in their heavily contested homelands. To cope with wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824846737
• ISBN13: 9780824846732
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"