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Burned like old rubbish: Pol Pot's funeral
The Phnom Penh Post’s “This week in history” feature includes an article on Pol Pot’s death and cremation back in 1998. Worth checking out. The Phnom Penh Post – Burned l… more →
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Burned like old rubbish: Pol Pot's funeral
erikwdavis wrote 7 months ago: The Phnom Penh Post’s “This week in history” feature includes an article on Pol Po … more →
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Links
erikwdavis wrote 8 months ago: This old story, about people praying to Pol Pot’s spirit (at his gravesite) is an old one, but … more →
"Maybe the dead were starving..."
erikwdavis wrote 9 months ago: Excellent two-part documentary from Al Jazeera on the ongoing Cambodian tribunal of the Khmer Rouge. … more →
Miech Ponn of the Buddhist Institute: How to Resuscitate a victim of a lightning strike.
erikwdavis wrote 10 months ago: Miech Ponn is a lovely older man and an honest-to-goodness well of knowledge about all the cultural … more →
Ka-set - Information website about Cambodia - Yiey Yah, high priestess of possession ceremonies
erikwdavis wrote 10 months ago: following is an excerpt from the beginning of a wonderful short article on spirit possession among t … more →
UN Expert: Hears Hmong Complaints About Thai Graves
erikwdavis wrote 11 months ago: From Saint Paul to Thailand… ST. PAUL, Minn. -— A United Nations human rights expert says he w … more →
What KBR does with dead bodies
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: My “How to do things with dead people” class is coming to a close. I had a lovely time, … more →
Neuroscience, Grief, and Ghosts
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: Vaughan, over at the great Mind Hacks blog, recently had an article published in Scientific American … more →
Dead Body Politics in the Aftermath of Mumbai Attacks
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: A great example of the sort of dead body politics I’ve been discussing with my students in my … more →
Lévi-Strauss: What Disappears on Death
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: What disappears with the death of a personality is a synthesis of ideas and modes of behaviour as ex … more →
The Dead as the Enemy, Plus Metaphorization, from Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: The Arawaté would compare this aggressive reception of the gods to what they themselves used to do w … more →
Village Life is Feminine, But the Socius is Masculine - Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: Seen from the village, life is feminine; one could even say that society is feminine–but it is … more →
"Suddenly everyone on Wall Street is a 'socialist'..."
Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: Just a note to recommend the post with this title on Deathpower. … more →
Lewis Mumford - The City and the Dead
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erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: A great quote from Mumford’s classic work on the City: Mid the uneasy wanderings of paleolithi … more →
Eveline Porée-Maspero on Pchum Ben
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erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: More French-language sources on Pchum Ben, the “Hungry Ghost Festival,” following on yes … more →
Even 'Funeral Buddhism' At Risk in Japan
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erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: From the New York Times, an account of Buddhism and funerals from the land of my birth. While the st … more →
If religion is based on anything, it is the dead.
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erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: I was trying this concept out on someone this afternoon. I think the idea has merit. The theory runs … more →
Left "Speechless" by "Deathpower"
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Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: I came across two blogs today that have left me very excited, and deeply impressed with the depth an … more →
James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake
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erikwdavis wrote 1 year ago: This ourth of years is not save brickdust and being humus the same roturns…The oaks of ald now … more →
