OCEC First and Second Trip to Surin and Buriram - Videos No. 01, 01A and 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2QMvTA_Q2I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0LsrgxTSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjt2BceQ0UE

OCEC First and Second Trip to Surin and Buriram Province - Videos No. 27, 28 and 29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwKbS7wEpDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyxoQq4SjI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Cdn0bl_y8

OCEC First and Second Trip to Surin and Buriram - Videos #22, 25 and 26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clt3IXqvXdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfr51U05jIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW6x95BdEjs

OCEC's videos from Surin and Buriram

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oISb5Ahzqs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQ6HwxQkoY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWnk0TIP-_w

OCEC First and Second Trip to Surin and Buriram Province

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5J7SSfPgU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjt2BceQ0UE

Thailand's Khmer as 'invisible minority' by Peter Vail

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The Denial of Khmer Culture

(excerpt)

When Khmer culture cannot be directly appropriated as Tai, its true origins are often obscured. Such is the case with manuscripts written in Khmer Mul script, for example, most of which are religious tracts written on palm leaves. In Thailand, this written language is frequently not referred to as Khmer at all, but as Khom, an old Mon word for Khmer (Bauer, 1989, p. 77). I suspect this usage was popularized precisely to obscure Khmer influence by the Fine Arts Department formed during the rule of military dictator Phibulsongkhram in the 1930s. Whether doing so was the actual motivation or not, using a Mon name for Khmer writing alienates these written artefacts from their Khmer heritage. During my fieldwork, I regularly asked Northern Khmer-speaking villagers if they knew what Khom was; most had only a dim or tentative awareness, and many did not know at all. That is, they knew the word Khom, but they did not immediately associate it with Khmer. Those who knew or suspected the script was Khmer were generally older villagers, especially those few who, ‘traditionally educated’ in local temples, knew how to write Mul script themselves. Still others would recognize a script as Khmer, and not realize it was being designated as Khom. Formal education certainly did not help: a highly educated doctor I met in Buriram province had dug up an ancient inscription in his garden and asked me if I could read it. Looking at it, I told him it was difficult for me to read Khmer, especially old Khmer, to which he responded ‘It isn’t Khmer, it’s Khom.’ When I pointed out that Khom was Khmer, he looked puzzled and asked, ‘Really?’ This is unsurprising given the emphasis in state education on producing national citizens. Northern Khmer speakers in Thailand, have, in other words, been alienated from a part of their cultural heritage through an obfuscatory change of name.

Khmer Buriram

Tribute to our Khmer Brothers and Sisters in Boreyrom (Buriram)

Song title: "Mok Na DounTa"
Production: Sor Promotion Company
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