[Buddha-l] {Theravada, Pali, Cambodia} the embryo in the canon (and in current ritual traditions)

[Jo]

J.K.,

 

Don't worry, "some of my best friends are anthropologists".

 

However, to indulge in Venn diagram reasoning for a moment, the anthropology of Cambodia deserves a great deal of criticism; within that circle, the anthropology of Buddhism of Cambodia is even worse.

 

The aforementioned article has completed peer-review, and should appear on the internet in June (I don't know if it appears on paper before or after it appears on the internet, but it's a moot point if your local library doesn't subscribe to Taiwanese journals of world religions).  Thus, the direct answer to your question is that you will have to wait.

 

It is listed here:

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2012, June, the next issue of 南華《世界宗教學刊》[同行評審] (Nanhua's peer-reviewed Journal of World Religions) will publish my article "Problems of 'Canon' and 'Reason' in Theravāda Studies: Cultural Anthropology Encounters the Pali Canon (巴利文大藏經), from Cambodia to Yunnan".  This will be in English only; I'm hoping to eventually publish the Chinese translation elsewhere.

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 <https://profiles.google.com/118222702679452306115/about> https://profiles.google.com/118222702679452306115/about

 

 

The critique (alluded to) is diluted with a great deal of constructive and helpful material that will benefit anthropologists and other non-specialists, both in employing canonical materials for comparison, and in being aware of the biases that enframe those resources in the English-language secondary (and tertiary) sources.

 

E.M.

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E.M.,

 

Saying the “some of my best friends” chestnut wasn’t necessary.

 

Thanks for the information and online article link--will soon read--however, you do not mention here the names of any anthropologists. Please name a few who’ve done work there. Generally speaking, I have the impression that few anthros study Buddhism, of any sort. Those who’ve done work in Cambodia far as I know focus on economic development and environmental problems. 

Ok, so how about it? Which anthros have published on Buddhism in Cambodia?

 

Joanna K.