• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Matters of Morality: The Case of a Former Khmer Rouge Village Chief
  • Beteiligte: ZUCKER, EVE MONIQUE
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2009
  • Erschienen in: Anthropology and Humanism
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2009.01021.x
  • ISSN: 1559-9167; 1548-1409
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory ; Philosophy ; Anthropology
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>SUMMARY</jats:title><jats:p>In a Khmer village located in Cambodia's southwest, an elderly man is blamed for the executions of his neighbors and extended kin. He is said to have killed these people when he worked as the village chief under the Khmer Rouge in the early 1970s. Using interviews and conversations with this man and others in his community, as well as observations and archival research, I speculatively examine villagers' accounts of the morality of his actions as a former Khmer Rouge village chief.</jats:p>