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題名 Chthonic Sovereigns? `Neak Ta` in a Cambodian Village 作者 吳考甯
Work, Courtney貢獻者 民族系 日期 2019-01 上傳時間 11-Jun-2021 16:13:33 (UTC+8) 摘要 Typically conflated with spirit or religion, territorial land entities known by various names across monsoon Asia are engaged in social relationships with human communities. Most often called neak ta in Cambodia (meaning the Ancient ones), but also known as maja tuk maja day, (the master of the water and the land), and arak (guardian or protector), many will tell you this is Brahminism, superstition from the ancient religion. More recently scholars use the term animism, and through this lens, neak ta becomes spirit—metaphysical guardians of territories, spirits of founding ancestors, or the earth-bound deities in Buddhist cosmologies. For locals they are guardians, people we cannot see, punishers, and healers, sometimes ancestors sometimes not. In the following treatment, empirical data complicates the prevailing paradigm and begins to detangle these entities from the constructed category of religion. In the context of an expanding discussion rethinking animism in Southeast Asia and its relationship to universal religions, these sovereigns of the land emerge beyond their confinement, or their assignation as spirits. They are in and of the water and the land and are instrumental social actors in the articulation of economic activity and political strategies as well as Buddhist practice. 關聯 Asia Pacific Journal of Anth, Vol.20, No.1, pp.74-95 資料類型 article DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2018.1553205 dc.contributor 民族系 dc.creator (作者) 吳考甯 dc.creator (作者) Work, Courtney dc.date (日期) 2019-01 dc.date.accessioned 11-Jun-2021 16:13:33 (UTC+8) - dc.date.available 11-Jun-2021 16:13:33 (UTC+8) - dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 11-Jun-2021 16:13:33 (UTC+8) - dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/135781 - dc.description.abstract (摘要) Typically conflated with spirit or religion, territorial land entities known by various names across monsoon Asia are engaged in social relationships with human communities. Most often called neak ta in Cambodia (meaning the Ancient ones), but also known as maja tuk maja day, (the master of the water and the land), and arak (guardian or protector), many will tell you this is Brahminism, superstition from the ancient religion. More recently scholars use the term animism, and through this lens, neak ta becomes spirit—metaphysical guardians of territories, spirits of founding ancestors, or the earth-bound deities in Buddhist cosmologies. For locals they are guardians, people we cannot see, punishers, and healers, sometimes ancestors sometimes not. In the following treatment, empirical data complicates the prevailing paradigm and begins to detangle these entities from the constructed category of religion. In the context of an expanding discussion rethinking animism in Southeast Asia and its relationship to universal religions, these sovereigns of the land emerge beyond their confinement, or their assignation as spirits. They are in and of the water and the land and are instrumental social actors in the articulation of economic activity and political strategies as well as Buddhist practice. dc.format.extent 2283419 bytes - dc.format.mimetype application/pdf - dc.relation (關聯) Asia Pacific Journal of Anth, Vol.20, No.1, pp.74-95 dc.title (題名) Chthonic Sovereigns? `Neak Ta` in a Cambodian Village dc.type (資料類型) article dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1080/14442213.2018.1553205 dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2018.1553205
