How to Behave: Buddhism & Modernity in Colonial Cambodia Africa Although they do not share

Although they do not share the same approach to the idea of "nation"

varieties of corruption

disappoint­ments

a smile may also be merely polite

How to Behave: Buddhism & Modernity in Colonial Cambodia Africa Although they do not share2008. 264 pp, 14x21 cm, This ambitious cross disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia. In one of the first studies of colonial Buddhism based largely on Khmer language sources, Anne Hansen argues for the importance of Theravada Buddhist ethics for imagining and articulating what it means to be modern in early twentieth