Under RE-Construction...
Dear Visitor,
Du.Fin.Fond.Du.Grenier is temporally taking a break … to come back in a more convenient version.
Meanwhile, maintain your connection with Chams with the
monthly chronicle "Clichés Chams" on Ka-Set
in english, french, and khmer:
Every 3rd Friday of the month, the "Chams Clichés" intend to go
beyond frozen and monotonous representations of the Muslim community in Cambodia by offering several colourful portraits casting light on the diversity of the Cham community. The aim of
this monthly column is to elude commonplace statements by studying a few clichés regarding characters - contemporary or ancient, historical or mythical - or ritual and everyday objects,
and will put the focus on a multitude of key “Cham” protagonists. Purists might be surprised about the use of the term “Cham”- the word is usually reduced to the sole descendants of the
Kingdom of Champa - to designate the whole of the Cambodian Muslim community, thus going beyond the simple “ethnic group”. This column echoes the general accepted meaning of the
word “Cham”, a misnomer generally used to refer to the whole Muslim community of Cambodia.
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And soon to come: more pictures (from then and now), more links, and more
info on Chams and the experience of
visual anthropology among Chams in Cambodia.
But before that, unfortunately, the links and the documents to be downloaded from the site
might not be available. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Don’t forget to subscribe (free) to the newsletter: your email address once registered it will be easy to contact you when any update is made !
For the time being enjoy the clicks on Du.Fin.Fond.Du.Grenier !
Emiko
Stock
As an introduction
Pictures often tell us much more
than their actual vision could reveal … What about all this old photographs hidden somewhere in Cambodian houses, and here, in Chams houses? Let’s see – through some excavations – what hese
images can tell us about past,and therefore present, cham society…
I think this little archives sharing would be more enjoyable as a regular meeting, on a totally informal basis. And to broader our experience we will not restrain ourselves to Chams in Cambodia,
but open the selection to Chams and Muslims in Mainland Southeast Asia.
So, « Du fin fond du Grenier » (something like: “from the attic’s far
back end” …) is now going to be a monthly rendez-vous, and you will soon discover more dusty - and
less dusty - materials to use in your quest in Cham studies and Muslim communities in former Indochina.
Being a tool to understand better the present, the past is not to be disconnected to nowadays situation. Through recent pictures and
comparative studies, suggestions of readings, updates of the ongoing research, let's enrich a dynamic study of the Chams societies...
Enjoy the dig!
Emiko Stock
.Du.Fin.Fond.Du.Grenier.
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