Archive Newsletter I

La Newsletter Du Fin Fond Du Grenier

No I - July 2007.

About one year ago, curious, researchers and other "chams studies addicts", members of a simple email list, received an old picture of Juliette Baccot. The shot was from Alain Daniel, back in 1968 (Thanks to him to make these pictures available!). Juliette Baccot was then doing her ethnographic work on spirits processions among Chams in Cambodia , the deepest insight of a cham community, still today.

Sharing this picture was part of a long time process of informal spreading of info on Chams, and what could be linked to Chams studies: announcements for relevant events, brand new articles and books, interesting web links.

The list of the interested people got longer and longer as the interest for Chams grew, and the simple emails forwarding started to be too limited,too frustrating: once the info passed through email it wasn’t available to anyone « new » out of the list.

It was time to organise all these data as some archives. And then, the Juliette Baccot photography started to make me think: from a simple picture we could go much deeper through the description, the details, and go learn more on Chams, still from a very informal way.

Making archives of yesterday available to anyone interested, connect them with the present through today’s pictures. Add a simple description, key details, a brief comparison of situations, and refer to other works to go further. That’s the scope of this small Du Fin Fond Du Grenier website. Something like … from the attic’s far back end.

Each month old pictures found on the field or in the distant libraries, along with their connected contemporary snapshots will await your visit. Each month the newsletter will keep you posted with web-links, ongoing events, classical texts, recent publications, anything to get you closer to the cham studies. 

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Now… enough talk ? … Let’s start the dig !





Emiko Stock

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What to excavate this month ?

Du Fin Fond Du Grenier.

Pictures from the 60’s Cai ceremony with a buffalo sacrifice. From there jump into the present Aid El Kabir.

From the bookcase.

* Thanks to Nicolas Lainez, Jeremy Jammes, and Philippe Peycam for the following references.

TAYLOR Philip “Economy in Motion: Cham Muslim Traders in the Mekong”, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Dec. 2006,p237-250.

- Abstract -

Cham Muslims of the Mekong delta address the problems and opportunities of Vietnam's liberal reform era with strategies of trade and mobility.

This paper situates Cham trading activities in an ongoing history of movement and examines the spatial and cultural singularities of Cham economic life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]


TAYLOR Philip “Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery”, National University of Singapore Press;University of Hawaii Press; Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Series: ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 2007, 313 p.

- Description -

This book provides an account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta and its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government. Officially regarded as one of Vietnam's national minority groups, the multilingual Cham are part of a cosmopolitan, transnational community, and as traders,pilgrims and labour migrants are found throughout mainland Southeast Asia and beyond. Drawing on local and extra-local networks developed during a long history that includes many migrations, the Cham counter their political and economic marginalisation in modern Vietnam by a strategic use of place and mobility, with Islam serving as a unifying focus.

This highly readable ethnographic study describes the settlement history and origin narratives of the Cham Muslims of the Mekong delta, and explains their religious practices, material life and relationship with the state in Vietnam and Cambodia. It offers original insights into religious and ethnic differentiation in the Mekong delta that will enrich the comparative study of culturally pluralist societies, and contributes significantly to the study of Islam, cosmopolitanism, trade, rural development and resistance and the Malay Diaspora.

- Table of Contents -
Preface
Introduction
1. In Search of Autonomous Origins
2. Islam in the Production of Cham Localities
3. Spirits of Community, Personhood and Place
4. Market Access: The Economy in
Local Perspective
5. Place in Motion, Culture in Process: Cham Histories of Trade
6. Cham Political Agency
Conclusion: In the Cosmopolitan Periphery
Notes
Bibliography
Index

From the virtual corner.

Classics! The basics from the pioneers and some yet-to-be-discovered research treasures unknown:

AEFEK - Association d’Echanges et de Formation pour les Etudes Khmères.

Or directly access to: Lecture de l'Islam en péninsule Indochinoise.


You can then download:


Antoine CABATON : " Notes sur l'Islam dans l'Indo-Chine française"
[ Revue du monde musulman, Paris, novembre  1906, vol.I , n°1 : 27-47 + Note de présentation par l'AEFEK.] "3">


Antoine CABATON : " Les Chams musulmans de l'Indo-Chine française"
[Revue du monde musulman, Paris, avril 1907, vol.II , n°7 : 129-180.]


Antoine CABATON : " Les Chams de l'Indo-Chine "
[Revue coloniale, janv-déc 1905, NS, n° 22-23 : 321-334.


Antoine CABATON : " Amulettes chez les peuples islamisés de l'Extrême-Orient"
[Revue du monde musulman, juillet-août 1909, vol.VIII, n° 7: 369-397.]


E. M. DURAND : " Les Chams Bani "
[BEFEO, 1903, t. 3 : 54-62]


Anthony H. JOHNS : " Islamization in Southeast Asia : reflections and reconsiderations with special reference to the role of sufism "
[Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), juin 1993, vol. 31, n°1 : 43-61]


Marcel NER : " Les musulmans de l’Indochine française "
[Indochine, Hanoi, mai 1944, n° 195 : 3-8 + Note de présentation par l'AEFEK ]


G. VIDY : " La communauté indienne en Indochine "
[Sud-Est, Paris, novembre  1949, n°6 : 1-8 + Note de présentation par l'AEFEK ]

From the events envelope.

The conference "Socio-cultural Issues of Champa 175 Years After Its Disappearance," organized by the International Office of Champa and the Champaka Journal will be held in San Jose, California, July 7 and July 8.

See the related article from Voice Of America:
Chams Gather for International Conference in California.

From the virtual phonograph.

Radio Sap Cham “The voice of Cham” has been broadcasting since 2004 on FM 93.5 in Cambodia. News translated from khmer to cham, documentaries on events, debates on social issues with the opinion of different responsible of the Cambodian Muslim minority, here are a few examples of what you could listen to, from your radio or from the new Sap Cham website. 

From the old portraits shelve.

Discover or Re-discover Paul Mus. Not to be reduced to Cham studies when the man devoted his life to “Asien” research, you will still be interested to know more about this first pioneer on the list of our portraits.

His works, his biography and a few fundamental articles such as “Cultes indiens et indigenes au Champa” on AEFEK, or with a direct access to these articles:

Paul MUS : " Les religions de l'Indochine "
[in Indochine, publié sous la direction de M. Sylvain Lévi, Exposition coloniale internationale, Paris, vol.I, 1931 : 103-156 + Note de présentation par l'AEFEK.]

Paul Mus : « Études indiennes et indochinoises : IV - Deux légendes chames »
[BEFEO, XXXI, 1931 : 39-101, 9 planches.]

Paul MUS : " Cultes indiens et indigènes au Champa "
[BEFEO, 1933, t.33 : 367-410.



English readers will find a translation in:

Paul Mus “India seen from the East: Indian and Indigenous Cults in Champa”.
[trans. by Ian W. Mabbett, ed. by Ian W. Mabbett, & David P. Chandler. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Monash University: Melbourne, 1975.]

Khmer readers will find a translation by Ang Choulean in Udaya 3 (2002).





That’s all for this month, more to come in August !

Emiko Stock

Du.Fin.Fond.Du.Grenier

http://fin-fond-grenier.over-blog.com/

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