1 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
2 The term "Khmer" is used interchangeably in this paper with the term "Cambodian," to refer to the language and to the majority population of Cambodia. However, it is important to note that the name "Cambodia" refers to a governmentally organized nation, whereas the name "Khmer," or more accurately "Khmae," refers to the ethnicity, culture, and language of the major ethnic group in the nation of Cambodia. Verbally, ethnic Khmers often refer to their country as "Srok-Khmae," literally "country of the Khmae people," rather than Cambodia.
3 Bong Sovath, interview by author, 25 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
4 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
5 Bong Sovath, interview by author, 25 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording; and Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
6 The terms "prehistory" and "prehistoric" are used in this paper to refer to cultural traditions which predate the use of written records and are not meant to devalue the heritage of indigenous Southeast Asians.
7 SEAMES, Final Report: Preparatory Conference on the Restoration and Animation of Historical Sites, vol. 2 (for the purpose of establishing in Phnom Penh and Applied Research Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts) Organized jointly by the Government of the Khmer Republic and SEAMES, 1972.
8 Wilhelm G. Solheim, "Archaeology and Anthropology in Southeast Asia," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18, no. 2 (1987): 175-181.
9 O. P. Paliwal, Cambodia, Past and Present (New Delhi: Lancer International, 1991), 41.
10 P. Bion Griffin, M. T. Stark and J. Ledgerwood, "Research, Education, and Cultural Resource Management at Angkor Borei, Cambodia," Cultural Resource Management (1996): 37-41.
11 Milton Osborne, Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1995), 198.
12 Bong Sovath, interview by author, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 25 November 1996.
13 Bruce G. Trigger, "Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist," Man 19 (1984): 356.
14 Trigger, "Alternative," 356.
15 Tea Van, interview by author, 20 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
16 Tea Van, interview by author, 20 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
17 Chan To, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
18 Griffin et al., "Research," 37-41.
19 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
20 Chan To, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording; Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
21 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
22 The Honorable Nouth Narang (Minister of Culture, Kingdom of Cambodia). "Culture Preservation in Cambodia." Paper presented at Southeast Asian Heritage: Preservation, Conservation, and Management Conference. Honolulu, Hawai'i, 8 March 1997.
23 Chan To, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording; Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
24 Trigger, "Alternative," 338.
25 Tea Van, interview by author, 20 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
26 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
27 Griffin et al., "Research," 37.
28 Chheang Serei Vuthy, interview by author, 18 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.
29 Bong Sovath, interview by author, 25 November 1996, Honolulu, tape recording.