Martijn de Koning is a Dutch anthropologist who has just received his doctorate for his dissertation on young Dutch muslims and the turn among some of them to Salafi Islam. The book based on the dissertation (which is only in Dutch) is in press, and will be titled, “Searching for a ‘pure’ Islam. Religious Beliefs and Identity Construction among Moroccan-Dutch Youth. There’s an excellent summary of the main points by Lorenz over at anthropologi.info.
Anders Poulsen has just published a book on Childbirth in Isan, which promises to be a historical and detailed study of childbirth practices and their survival or disappearance in Isan. Notice over at New Mandala.
Details Are Sketchy blogged a useful intervention in the ongoing memory wars fought by various adolescent factions of the Khmer political class here. Foreigners are much more interested in these damned symbolic appropriations than most Khmers are – I’m not saying that the Khmer don’t want to memorialize the dead, but rather that the people I’ve spoken to recognize all of these political appropriations for exactly what they are – completely bankrupt opportunism.
Holy Crap! The Phnom Penh Post is putting its archives online! While I’m happy about this, I’m somewhat regretful about all the article clipping, archiving, and transporting of PPP articles I did. Via DAS.
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