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Cambodian Buddhism in the United States is the first comprehensive anthropological study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees in the United States. Based on research conducted at Khmer temples and sites throughout the country over a period of three and a half decades, Carol A. Mortland uses participant observation, open-ended interviews, life histories, and dialogues with Khmer monks and laypeople to explore the everyday practice of Khmer religion, including spirit beliefs and healing rituals. This ethnography is enriched and supplemented by the use of historical accounts, reports, memoirs, unpublished life histories, and family memorabilia painstakingly preserved by refugees. Mortland also traces the changes that Cambodians have made to religion as they struggle with the challenges of living in a new country, learning English, and supporting themselves. The beliefs and practices of Khmer Muslims and Khmer Christians in the United States are also reviewed.

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Amerikanen van Vietnamese origine --- Américains asiatiques --- Américains d'origine japonaise --- Américains d'origine vietnamienne --- Asian Americans --- Aziatische Amerikanen --- Cambodian Americans --- Chinese Americans --- East Indian Americans --- Filipino Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Japanse Amerikanen --- Korean Americans --- Laotian Americans --- Vietnamese Americans --- #KVHA:Volkeren; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:American Studies --- Chinese Amerikanen --- Sino-Américains --- Asians --- Ethnology

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Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. Buddha Is Hiding tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, the study puts a human face on how American institutions-of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry-affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. In her earlier book, Flexible Citizenship, anthropologist Aihwa Ong wrote of elite Asians shuttling across the Pacific. This parallel study tells the very different story of "the other Asians" whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. In Buddha Is Hiding we see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being-made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values as they endure and undermine, absorb and deflect conflicting lessons about welfare, work, medicine, gender, parenting, and mass culture. Trying to hold on to the values of family and home culture, Cambodian Americans nonetheless often feel that "Buddha is hiding." Tracing the entangled paths of poor and rich Asians in the American nation, Ong raises new questions about the form and meaning of citizenship in an era of globalization.

Cambodian Americans --- Refugees --- Citizenship --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Ethnic identity. --- Civil rights --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- Oakland (Calif.) --- City of Oakland (Calif.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Américains d'origine cambodgienne --- Réfugiés --- Social conditions --- Ethnic identity --- Conditions sociales --- Identité ethnique --- Family. --- Cambodians. --- Adaptation. --- Refugees. --- Américains d'origine cambodgienne --- Réfugiés --- Citoyenneté --- Droits --- Conditions sociales. --- Identité collective. --- american citizenship. --- american culture. --- american dream. --- american institutions. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- buddhism. --- buddhists. --- california. --- cambodian americans. --- cambodian refugees. --- citizenship experience. --- cultural anthropologists. --- demographic studies. --- ethnic tensions. --- fieldwork. --- globalization. --- minority citizens. --- modern history. --- new america. --- nonfiction study. --- oakland. --- pol pot regime. --- race and class. --- regional history. --- san francisco. --- social sciences. --- southeast asia. --- textbooks. --- welfare. --- Citoyenneté --- Identité collective.

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In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust.Based on long-term research among Cambodians residing in metropolitan Boston, this rich ethnography provides a vivid portrait of the challenges facing Khmer American culture as seen from the perspective of elders attempting to preserve Khmer Buddhism in a deeply unfamiliar world. The study highlights the tensions and ambivalences of Khmer socialization, with particular emphasis on Khmer conceptions of personhood, morality, and sexuality. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner considers how this cultural heritage influences the performance of Khmer children in American schools and, ultimately, determines Khmer engagement with American culture.

Cambodian Americans --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Religion --- Boston (Mass.) --- Ethnic relations. --- City of Boston (Mass.) --- Beantown (Mass.) --- بوسطن (Mass.) --- Būsṭun (Mass.) --- Бостон (Mass.) --- Горад Бостан (Mass.) --- Horad Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостан (Mass.) --- Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостън (Mass.) --- Bostŭn (Mass.) --- Βοστώνη (Mass.) --- Vostōnē (Mass.) --- Bostono (Mass.) --- بوستون (Mass.) --- Pô-sṳ-tun (Mass.) --- 보스턴 (Mass.) --- Bosŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Posŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Pokekona (Mass.) --- בוסטון (Mass.) --- Bostonia (Mass.) --- Bostona (Mass.) --- Bostonas (Mass.) --- ボストン (Mass.) --- באסטאן (Mass.) --- Bostons (Mass.) --- 波士顿 (Mass.) --- Boshidun (Mass.)