This book is a pioneering ethnographic study of Cambodian rural society after the rule of Democratic Kampuchea  (1975-79). Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in central Cambodia, the book uncovered the actual  processes and conditions that informed socio-cultural reconfigurations of Cambodian rural villages after the turmoil  of civil war and totalitarian state rule in the 1970s. The book describes, analyses and reconstructs regional  history through local narratives which illustrate not only the unique characteristics of contemporary village lives  but also the continuity and change of social structure and culture in Cambodia.