Folklorizing Northern Khmer Identity in Thailand

"Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Production of "Good Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID6087285
AuthorsAlexandra Denes (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume30
Issue1
Pages1-34
Publication date2015-03-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/sj30-1a
OpenAlexW2014342684
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

Growing recognition of the contested nature of heritage has prompted critical reassessments of official heritage discourses and the demand for more inclusive heritage processes. Field research in Surin, Thailand, reveals the challenges of implementing participatory approaches in a context in which the concept of cultural heritage is employed to domesticate the nation’s ethnic Others. The history of state-sponsored, folklorized performances of the ethnic Khmer genre of kantruem demonstrates the ways in which the recent listing of kantruem on Thailand’s national registry of “intangible culture” elides histories of cross-border linkage with Cambodia and meanings of kantruem as a site of memory and affect

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Business · Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Identity (music · Intangible cultural heritage · Listing (finance · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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