Indigenous politics, public health and the Cambodian colonial state

Author: Au, Sokhieng

Source: South East Asia Research, Volume 14, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 33-86(54)

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Abstract:

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion supports a more general aim of furthering the understanding of Khmer political behaviour in the colonial period. A history of medical controversies reveals the changing nature of indigenous response to the colonial state, and provides alternative models to existing tropes of Khmer socio-political behaviour.

Keywords: AGRARIAN RESISTANCE; PLAGUE; PUBLIC HEALTH; FRENCH COLONIALISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000006776563703

Publication date: 2006-03-01

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South East Asia Research publishes articles based on original research or fieldwork on all aspects of South East Asia within the disciplines of archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, language and literature, law, music, political science, social anthropology and religious studies. This peer-reviewed journal is published four times per year by IP Publishing in cooperation with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). SOAS is the leading centre in this field in Europe and one of the most prestigious centres of South East Asian Studies in the world.
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