Courtney+Work

I have been working in Cultural Anthropology since 2003. My research area is Cambodia, a country with deep Buddhist traditions, an ancient legacy of powerful kings and mystical temples, and the memory of a brutal genocide and thirty years of war. The fighting stopped in 1998, with the death of Pol Pot and the subsequent absorption of the Khmer Rouge army into the current regime. Since that time the country has moved rapidly into a production economy and struggles to find a place at the table of industrialized nations. My interests include, but are not limited to, ritual, social memory, and trauma, violence and masculine performance,and the effects of global economic forces on social change.I am also grappling with the challenge of presenting the influence of the structural forces of history and society as well as the power and persistence of individual action in my analysis of social phenomena in a changing Cambodia. I am a PhD Candidate at Cornell University.

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