Chantiers de pagodes dans le Cambodge colonial (1900-1940)

Between 1900 and 1940, thousand of Cambodian Buddhist pagodas were destroyed and rebuilt all over Cambodia. Cambodian populations had to negotiate, site by site, with the administration of the Protectorat to renovate and revitalize their rural or urban religious buildings. Despite the Ancient temples, Buddhist monasteries were first not integrated to the definition of heritage. They then became an issue of representation for the Cambodian elite who took over this administrative strake to assert their social and political prerogatives over French authorities. While new Cambodian studies focus on concepts of community, village and network, who are the actors of these pagodas buildings, from the countryside to the capital, and what are the issues of these new foundations of Buddhist monasteries during colonial period in Cambodia?

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