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I'm looking for something like this about Cambodia. Nothing featuring Lara Croft.
Sorry, I can't tell you any, but there are lots of books on Angkor etc.
Yea, I've got Angkor and the Khmer Civilisation by Michael Coe on my shelf.
I am interested in the angry villagers!
Was this a case of 'these are our ancestors so leave them alone'
Or 'these are our tombs, if anybody is going to make money from them, it had better be us!'
Or 'this is part of our landscape, don't disturb it'or something else?
Was there an issue for them as well about land use? I assume that it is not convenient to be working on your field and having to report archeological finds each time your spade brings up something that is hundreds of years old?
Hello,
I also have or once had Michael Coe's book. It's of course not in the same style as Kirkpatrick's. There are a lot of others often with beautiful photos.
Yes, Jan-Maat. I think the villagers seldom reported stuff they found and your Option #2 is more likely to be right. Many people thought that the tombs should be left alone as a matter of not disturbing the dead, not that they identified the occupants so much as direct "ancestors". David Chandler's History of Cambodia is the accepted version in Cambodia itself--it was on many bookshop shelves over there some years ago, but it is not in the same style as this one on Peru.
Wow! What a great find! This one definitely goes on my list.
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Sorry, I can't tell you any, but there are lots of books on Angkor etc.
Yea, I've got Angkor and the Khmer Civilisation by Michael Coe on my shelf.
I am interested in the angry villagers!Was this a case of 'these are our ancestors so leave them alone'
Or 'these are our tombs, if anybody is going to make money from them, it had better be us!'
Or 'this is part of our landscape, don't disturb it'or something else?
Was there an issue for them as well about land use? I assume that it is not convenient to be working on your field and having to report archeological finds each time your spade brings up something that is hundreds of years old?
Hello,I also have or once had Michael Coe's book. It's of course not in the same style as Kirkpatrick's. There are a lot of others often with beautiful photos.
Yes, Jan-Maat. I think the villagers seldom reported stuff they found and your Option #2 is more likely to be right. Many people thought that the tombs should be left alone as a matter of not disturbing the dead, not that they identified the occupants so much as direct "ancestors". David Chandler's History of Cambodia is the accepted version in Cambodia itself--it was on many bookshop shelves over there some years ago, but it is not in the same style as this one on Peru.
Wow! What a great find! This one definitely goes on my list.