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題名 Grounding the Shifting Political Registers in a Potent Cambodian Landscape
作者 吳考甯
Work, Courtney
貢獻者 民族系
日期 2024-06
上傳時間 4-Sep-2025 10:12:07 (UTC+8)
摘要 Potency is life force. Prowess is the skill manifest in transforming potency into fecundity and refers to the economic activities of the entire biosphere. Potency is amoral and creation and destruction are relative. One fellow’s destruction is another’s delight. Prowess among humans, however, has considerably narrowed the field of acceptable delights and added distinct moral dimensions to universal acts of tapping potency. Tracing some of the political norms through which various types of human potency tapping activities take place, some symmetrical forms emerge. While the emergence of these human political forms has a chronology, one never replaces the other and they exist together in the landscape of contemporary Cambodia. This chapter explores the contours of destruction and delight and exposes the shaman’s tricks through which ancestors are transformed into commodities and the unquestioned moral values naturalizing this process. There are no research questions in the following pages. Only provocations, and the weaving of new tales in the darkness.
關聯 The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Singapore, pp.315-336
資料類型 book/chapter
ISBN 9789819996544
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9655-1_19
dc.contributor 民族系
dc.creator (作者) 吳考甯
dc.creator (作者) Work, Courtney
dc.date (日期) 2024-06
dc.date.accessioned 4-Sep-2025 10:12:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 4-Sep-2025 10:12:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 4-Sep-2025 10:12:07 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.isbn (ISBN) 9789819996544
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/159495-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Potency is life force. Prowess is the skill manifest in transforming potency into fecundity and refers to the economic activities of the entire biosphere. Potency is amoral and creation and destruction are relative. One fellow’s destruction is another’s delight. Prowess among humans, however, has considerably narrowed the field of acceptable delights and added distinct moral dimensions to universal acts of tapping potency. Tracing some of the political norms through which various types of human potency tapping activities take place, some symmetrical forms emerge. While the emergence of these human political forms has a chronology, one never replaces the other and they exist together in the landscape of contemporary Cambodia. This chapter explores the contours of destruction and delight and exposes the shaman’s tricks through which ancestors are transformed into commodities and the unquestioned moral values naturalizing this process. There are no research questions in the following pages. Only provocations, and the weaving of new tales in the darkness.
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dc.relation (關聯) The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia, Palgrave Macmillan Singapore, pp.315-336
dc.title (題名) Grounding the Shifting Political Registers in a Potent Cambodian Landscape
dc.type (資料類型) book/chapter
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1007/978-981-99-9655-1_19
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9655-1_19