Launching Deathpower in Cambodia

I’m particularly pleased that the first event for my recently published book, Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia [ahem: there’s a coupon code on that page], (available from the publisher, Columbia UP, here / Amazon here) will be in Cambodia itself. That feels not only appropriate to me, but important.

Tuesday, 19 January, 7 PM, at Meta House.

The work this book represents depends centrally and non-negotiably on those in Cambodia who spoke at length with me over the more than three years of fieldwork that constituted my engagement with the topic in Cambodia (primarily 2003-2006, but in shorter trips after that period as well). More particularly, it could never have been done without the tenacity, intelligence, and research of my friend and fellow-researcher Heng Chhun Oeurn, who worked with me throughout that period. She’s agreed to attend the book launch, though I’m not yet certain she’ll be willing to join me in addressing the audience, as I have asked.

So: if you’re in Phnom Penh or the nearby environs tomorrow night, at 7 PM, please join us at Meta House for the launch, organized by Mekong Review and Monument Books. And come up to say hello if you like.