Przemiany w strukturach społecznych wsi kambodżańskiej

• Authors: Jelonek Adam

Title variants

EN

Changes in social structures of Cambodian village

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Village communities are one of the basic pillars of social organization of Cambodia. Similarly as long lasting process gave the individual a sub ject role in social structure of Mediterranean tradition, in the societies of Eastern Asia, including Cambodia, self-steering individual has to give in to complex communities. In East Asia for centuries the co-operative so cial system had guaranteed continuity and durability long before a con cept of necessary conditions for social system stability appeared in Europe, In Cambodia the co-operative tradition several times has been a sub ject of dramatic social experiments. The author made an attempt to ana lyse basic factors of durability and change in the organizational level of village community in the historical process. Whatever would be an obvio us element of anthropological analysis – village communities can not be isolated from the broader Cambodian society and its socio-cultural, eco nomic and political context. That traditional Cambodian society survived in spite of many traumas of the country's recent past which indicates the durability of traditional cultural values. But at the current state of knowledge there is no doubt that pre-revolutionary picture of the village society does not exist any more. The attempts to change the trajectory of the traditional co-opera tive life of the Cambodian village during the years of Khmer Rouges revolution is just one of the factors influencing the current state of the village community. Also, somewhat paradoxically, the weakening of traditional life seemed to reinforce or amplify the effects of the dislocations in Cambodia and among its people rather than allow the ready transplantation or grafting of new values, practices, and institutions. As a result, Cambodia was rendered a badly fractured society, providing at the village level, home to some 85 percent of all Cambodians.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Azja-Pacyfik
• Year: 2000
• Issue: III
• Pages: 246-259

Dates

published

2000

Contributors

author

Jelonek Adam