Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor : Routledge : 9780415677721 : 0415677726 : 28 Apr 2016 : "Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this book concerns Cambodian history and historiography, with an ultimate aim to broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravada politico-cultural complex. The booktakes the form of an interdisciplinary cultural analysis of a number of performative and representational strategies for constituting social collectivises. The analysis involves extended close readings of a wide range of cultural artefacts including epigraphic and manuscript texts, sculpture and ritual practices. The author proposes a critical re-evaluation of dominant paradigms of Cambodian historiography in view of engendering new histories, or hybrid histories, which make room for previously absent perspectives and voices, while developing new theoretical tools engaging with