Penny Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond words: Going off script in Theravada Southeast Asia
Accounts of Buddhism in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia offer detailed descriptions of ‘the power attributed to inscribed amulets, tattoos, and related forms of writing’ (p. 8). But earlier scholarship on Southeast Asia ‘often looked down on non-literary uses of script’, treating it as either a ‘non-Buddhist “cultural” accretion or the ignoble trappings of popular superstition’ (p. 8). Such judgements were based on an idealised conception of Buddhis…
New Decade, New Directions: Advancing the Study of Southeast Asian Religions
Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860–1945
This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot's murderous dystopia. Penny Edwards recreates the intellectual milieux and cultural traffic linking Europe and empire, interweaving analysis of key movements and ideas in the French Protectorate of Cambodge with contemporary developments in the Métropole. From the naturalist Henr…
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. Chapters cover myriad contexts from Colombo to Cape Town, from New Caledonia to New South Wales, from Burma to Banda; French, British, and Dutc…
A Strategic Sanctuary: Reading l'Inde française through the Colonial Archive
In 1908, twenty years after the French press in Pondicherry had celebrated the enthusiasm displayed by Indians at its first Bastille Day celebration, ‘countless coolies’ were seen ‘unloading a consignment of Liverpool salt’ from a foreign vessel whose cargo contained ‘the bleeding head of a cow and the gory feet of an ox’. The coolies in question were clay models in what was branded a ‘seditious’exhibition in the French territory of Chandernagore…
Bitter Pills: Colonialism, Medicine and Nationalism in Burma, 1870-1940
This article examines medicine as a field of knowledge deeply implicated in the emergence of new ways of articulating national difference. Specifically, it aims to shed light on the symbiosis between perceptions of political space and sovereignty, and conceptualizations of human anatomy. The article offers an analysis of the presentation, dissemination, and institutionalization of western medicine by colonial researchers, missionaries, educators …
Pigments of the Imagination: Theorising, Performing and Historicising Mixed Race
On 28 August 2006, Time published an article called “Diving into the Gene Pool” by Carolina Miranda. Miranda, a Latin American by birth and a resident of New York, decided to test her genetic make
The Tyranny of Proximity: Power and Mobility in Colonial Cambodia, 1863–1954
Often typecast as sedentary and static in Western writings, Cambodians have long been on the move. This article explores the misrepresentation of such mobility in colonial narratives, and contrasts the stereotype of the static Khmer with the mobilization of recruits in the First World War, the activities of protesters in Cambodia and political devices like the Royal Tour
Grounds for protest: Placing Shwedagon pagoda in colonial and postcolonial history
In November 1885, Britain exiled the Burmese King Thibaw and Queen Suppayalat to Ratnagari in western India, and so secured Burma's annexation as a province of India. Their forced flight inspired a
China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
" The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy." Folk Life, 44(1), pp. 153–154
Relocating the Interlocutor: Taw Sein Ko (1864–1930) and the Itinerancy of Knowledge in British Burma
Taw Sein Ko, born in Moulmein in 1864 to a merchant from Fujian and a Shan princess, rose to a high position in the British colonial administration in Burma. A talented linguist and a prolific writer, his views on Burmese society, archaeology, ethnology, Buddhism, law and history circulated in English-language journals, books and pamphlets in Burma, China and Britain. This paper, seeking to draw out the role of non-Europeans as both cultural inte…
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the 'Non-Settler' Colonies of Burma and Cambodia
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the ‘Non-Settler’ Colonies of Burma and Cambodia Penny Edwards1 The term ‘settler colony’ or ‘settler colonialism’ is generally now understood to embrace Algeria, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and North America and to exclude British India, French Indochina, and the Dutch East Indies . In this essay I want to rupture the binary of ‘settler colonies’ versus ‘non-settler’ colonies by l…
Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma
2002). Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 279-295
Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume
2001). Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 389-416
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
Journal Article Strikes in the United States, 1881–1974. By P. K. Edwards. (New York: St. Martin's, 1981. xvi + 336 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $27.50.) Get access Warren Van Tine Warren Van Tine Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887821 Published: 01 June 1982
Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma
2002). Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 279-295
Bitter Pills: Colonialism, Medicine and Nationalism in Burma, 1870-1940
This article examines medicine as a field of knowledge deeply implicated in the emergence of new ways of articulating national difference. Specifically, it aims to shed light on the symbiosis between perceptions of political space and sovereignty, and conceptualizations of human anatomy. The article offers an analysis of the presentation, dissemination, and institutionalization of western medicine by colonial researchers, missionaries, educators …
China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume
2001). Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 389-416
Grounds for protest: Placing Shwedagon pagoda in colonial and postcolonial history
In November 1885, Britain exiled the Burmese King Thibaw and Queen Suppayalat to Ratnagari in western India, and so secured Burma's annexation as a province of India. Their forced flight inspired a
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
" The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy." Folk Life, 44(1), pp. 153–154
Relocating the Interlocutor: Taw Sein Ko (1864–1930) and the Itinerancy of Knowledge in British Burma
Taw Sein Ko, born in Moulmein in 1864 to a merchant from Fujian and a Shan princess, rose to a high position in the British colonial administration in Burma. A talented linguist and a prolific writer, his views on Burmese society, archaeology, ethnology, Buddhism, law and history circulated in English-language journals, books and pamphlets in Burma, China and Britain. This paper, seeking to draw out the role of non-Europeans as both cultural inte…
The Tyranny of Proximity: Power and Mobility in Colonial Cambodia, 1863–1954
Often typecast as sedentary and static in Western writings, Cambodians have long been on the move. This article explores the misrepresentation of such mobility in colonial narratives, and contrasts the stereotype of the static Khmer with the mobilization of recruits in the First World War, the activities of protesters in Cambodia and political devices like the Royal Tour
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the 'Non-Settler' Colonies of Burma and Cambodia
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the ‘Non-Settler’ Colonies of Burma and Cambodia Penny Edwards1 The term ‘settler colony’ or ‘settler colonialism’ is generally now understood to embrace Algeria, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and North America and to exclude British India, French Indochina, and the Dutch East Indies . In this essay I want to rupture the binary of ‘settler colonies’ versus ‘non-settler’ colonies by l…
Beyond words: Going off script in Theravada Southeast Asia
Accounts of Buddhism in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia offer detailed descriptions of ‘the power attributed to inscribed amulets, tattoos, and related forms of writing’ (p. 8). But earlier scholarship on Southeast Asia ‘often looked down on non-literary uses of script’, treating it as either a ‘non-Buddhist “cultural” accretion or the ignoble trappings of popular superstition’ (p. 8). Such judgements were based on an idealised conception of Buddhis…
Pigments of the Imagination: Theorising, Performing and Historicising Mixed Race
On 28 August 2006, Time published an article called “Diving into the Gene Pool” by Carolina Miranda. Miranda, a Latin American by birth and a resident of New York, decided to test her genetic make
Strikes in the United States, 1881-1974
Journal Article Strikes in the United States, 1881–1974. By P. K. Edwards. (New York: St. Martin's, 1981. xvi + 336 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $27.50.) Get access Warren Van Tine Warren Van Tine Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887821 Published: 01 June 1982
Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume
2001). Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860–1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 389-416
Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma
2002). Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 279-295
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the 'Non-Settler' Colonies of Burma and Cambodia
On Home Ground: Settling Land and Domesticating Difference in the ‘Non-Settler’ Colonies of Burma and Cambodia Penny Edwards1 The term ‘settler colony’ or ‘settler colonialism’ is generally now understood to embrace Algeria, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and North America and to exclude British India, French Indochina, and the Dutch East Indies . In this essay I want to rupture the binary of ‘settler colonies’ versus ‘non-settler’ colonies by l…
Relocating the Interlocutor: Taw Sein Ko (1864–1930) and the Itinerancy of Knowledge in British Burma
Taw Sein Ko, born in Moulmein in 1864 to a merchant from Fujian and a Shan princess, rose to a high position in the British colonial administration in Burma. A talented linguist and a prolific writer, his views on Burmese society, archaeology, ethnology, Buddhism, law and history circulated in English-language journals, books and pamphlets in Burma, China and Britain. This paper, seeking to draw out the role of non-Europeans as both cultural inte…
China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
" The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy." Folk Life, 44(1), pp. 153–154
The Tyranny of Proximity: Power and Mobility in Colonial Cambodia, 1863–1954
Often typecast as sedentary and static in Western writings, Cambodians have long been on the move. This article explores the misrepresentation of such mobility in colonial narratives, and contrasts the stereotype of the static Khmer with the mobilization of recruits in the First World War, the activities of protesters in Cambodia and political devices like the Royal Tour
Grounds for protest: Placing Shwedagon pagoda in colonial and postcolonial history
In November 1885, Britain exiled the Burmese King Thibaw and Queen Suppayalat to Ratnagari in western India, and so secured Burma's annexation as a province of India. Their forced flight inspired a
Pigments of the Imagination: Theorising, Performing and Historicising Mixed Race
On 28 August 2006, Time published an article called “Diving into the Gene Pool” by Carolina Miranda. Miranda, a Latin American by birth and a resident of New York, decided to test her genetic make
A Strategic Sanctuary: Reading l'Inde française through the Colonial Archive
In 1908, twenty years after the French press in Pondicherry had celebrated the enthusiasm displayed by Indians at its first Bastille Day celebration, ‘countless coolies’ were seen ‘unloading a consignment of Liverpool salt’ from a foreign vessel whose cargo contained ‘the bleeding head of a cow and the gory feet of an ox’. The coolies in question were clay models in what was branded a ‘seditious’exhibition in the French territory of Chandernagore…
Bitter Pills: Colonialism, Medicine and Nationalism in Burma, 1870-1940
This article examines medicine as a field of knowledge deeply implicated in the emergence of new ways of articulating national difference. Specifically, it aims to shed light on the symbiosis between perceptions of political space and sovereignty, and conceptualizations of human anatomy. The article offers an analysis of the presentation, dissemination, and institutionalization of western medicine by colonial researchers, missionaries, educators …
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. Chapters cover myriad contexts from Colombo to Cape Town, from New Caledonia to New South Wales, from Burma to Banda; French, British, and Dutc…
Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860–1945
This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot's murderous dystopia. Penny Edwards recreates the intellectual milieux and cultural traffic linking Europe and empire, interweaving analysis of key movements and ideas in the French Protectorate of Cambodge with contemporary developments in the Métropole. From the naturalist Henr…
New Decade, New Directions: Advancing the Study of Southeast Asian Religions
Beyond words: Going off script in Theravada Southeast Asia
Accounts of Buddhism in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia offer detailed descriptions of ‘the power attributed to inscribed amulets, tattoos, and related forms of writing’ (p. 8). But earlier scholarship on Southeast Asia ‘often looked down on non-literary uses of script’, treating it as either a ‘non-Buddhist “cultural” accretion or the ignoble trappings of popular superstition’ (p. 8). Such judgements were based on an idealised conception of Buddhis…
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