Forest of struggle: Moralities of remembrance in upland Cambodia

摘要

Forest of struggle considers the impact of the Khmer Rouge revolution on a remote village at the edge of the Cardamom Mountains in Kompong Speu Province, southwestern Cambodia. Eve Zucker is broadly concerned with the question that animates most anthropologists who have worked with Cambodians in the years since 1979: 'how communities negotiate the memories associated with difficult pasts and come together again to rebuild their lives' (pp. 7-8). She explores this question through the explanatory themes of morality and memory (both individual and social) as they relate to trust, distrust, and the re-establishment of broken trust in a village context.