Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: Some Introductory Remarks xi
5. At the Edge of the Forest: Narrative, Order, and Questions of Meaning in Khmer History and Society 1
6. David Chandler: Selected Bibliography 19
7. Coming to Cambodia 21
8. Introduction to "Songs at the Edge of the Forest" 29
9. Songs at the Edge of the Forest: Perceptions of Order in Three Cambodian Texts 31
10. PART I: GAPS IN THE WORLD
11. Gaps in the World: Harm and Violence in Khmer Buddhist Narrative 49
12. Songs at the Edge of Democratic Kampuchea 73
13. PART II: ALTERNATIVE READINGS OF THE PAST
14. Performative Realities: Nobody's Possession 97
15. The King with Hansen's Disease: Tales of the Leper in Colonial Cambodia 125
16. Between a Song and a Prei: Tracking Cambodian History and Cosmology through the Forest 141
17. PART III: NEW SONGS
18. Constructing Narratives of Order: Religious-Building Projects and Moral Chaos 169
19. Ritual In 1990 Cambodian Political Theatre: New Songs At The Edge Of The Forest 201
20. Imaginary Conversations With Mothers About Death 227
21. Contributors 255
22. Southeast Asia Program Publications 258