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Dear Friends:
I have resurrected my blogging activity. Should you wish to follow my self-indulgent blogging efforts on topics such as death, anthropology, cambodia, buddhism, agriculture, labor, and the life of a new academic, please consider subscribing to my new ...
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18:24
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deathpower
All conditioned phenomena are impermanent.
And therefore, friends, all things come to an end. This blog has been a useful place for me to forward stories I found important, occasionally comment on them, or work out ideas – mostly relating ...
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22:11
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via Wordle – Treasures of the Buddha: Imagining Death and Life in Contemporary Cambodia.
emotional deflation ahead.
Tagged: dissertation, wordle ...
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16:25
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deathpower
via the PPP
SECURITY police at the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh opened fire during a confrontation with more than 100 protesters Wednesday as they sought intervention over a pay dispute.
About 110 Chinese construction workers employed by the Jiangsu ...
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14:49
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deathpower
This is really too low. Faced with a massive loss of orders from abroad, pressure from unions within the country, and the very real possibility of a global economic crisis severe enough to decimate or even destroy the Cambodian garment ...
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14:41
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deathpower
The Phnom Penh Post has a paragraph, with a nice photo, of part of the May Day march that took place last Friday. The CGT sent greetings, as did the IWW.
The Phnom Penh Post – Worker solidarity.
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15:20
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deathpower
The Phnom Penh Post’s “This week in history” feature includes an article on Pol Pot’s death and cremation back in 1998.
Worth checking out.
The Phnom Penh Post – Burned like old rubbish: Pol Pot’s funeral.
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deathpower
Gunfire at the Wat Munisotaram New Year celebrations here in Minnesota. A tragedy. Nobody hurt, and one person in jail as a result.
Rising Cambodian studies scholar Trent Walker recently gave a talk on Smot (ស្មូត្រ) singing with demonstrations and ...
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deathpower
You must watch this video lecture of Gregory Schopen, the Buddhist Studies author whose work has made quite substantial waves in the field. Hat tip to Danny Fisher, whose birthday is today!
Tagged: buddhism, business, danny fisher, schopen...
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deathpower
AlisoninCambodia has released another fantastic archaeology in Cambodia post to her blog, which talks about subjects dear to my heart: complexity, land use, and Southeast Asia. Read it, read it, read it!.
Also, the Prime Minister has joined in: apparently ...
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deathpower
Tim Sakhorn was previously abducted from his temple in Cambodia, forcibly defrocked, and then illegally transported across national borders into Vietnam, where he was tried in a Vietnamese court, and recently released to a highly supervised existence.
Recently he traveled ...