Udaya is a word of Sanskrit origin used in Khmer since ancient times.
Pronounced 'outey' in Khmer, it means 'rising sun,'
and by extension 'dawn' or 'rebirth.'
Udaya strives to participate in the blossoming of a Cambodian renaissance. The journal is designed to provide a forum and a vehicle for the renewal already underway in Khmer Studies ?a new renewal which cannot be entirely isolated from the political, social and economic aspects of a larger cultural transformation ongoing in Cambodia and with respect to Cambodia.
Understood in this context, the editorial project of which
Udaya is the expression is historically determined, and intentionally so. In its name, its form and its aims, Udaya is a product and a reflection of the current moment in the history of Khmer Studies, of Cambodia and indeed of the world. Rather than taking an ahistorical universalist approach to the domain, Udaya is conceived as an engaged
journal: engaged in the lives and times of its 'subject.' And yet, the choice to name the journal with this Sanskrit word that has taken an active role over more than a millennium of Khmer civilization, was also made to suggest that rebirth ?a kind of continuity established through the very process of change? can be seen as a cultural
universal. That the singularity of the present moment in the history of Cambodia, and of Khmer Studies, is pertinent to the study of culture in general.
UDAYA, Journal of Khmer Studies
The main body of each issue of Udaya consists in a series of full-length articles. Each issue also contains a section of 'Field Reports' by institutions or individuals carrying out research and conservation work in Cambodia.
Contributions are accepted in Khmer, English and French, and we aim to include at least one full-length article in Khmer per issue. Finally, each issue will reprint in Khmer
translation one of the seminal articles in the field previously unavailable in Khmer.
Although as a rule Udaya welcomes articles on any aspect of
Cambodian culture in its largest sense, from time to time we will produce a thematic issue.
Number 1, 2000
>From the Editors / Notes de redaction / (also in Khmer)
-- Ea Darith: 'Some new data on Khmer Ceramics' (in Khmer)
-- Louise Cort and Leedom Lefferts: 'Khmer earthenware in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Approach through Production'
-- Miriam Stark: 'Pre-Angkor Earthenware: Ceramics from
Cambodia's Mekong Delta'
-- Marc Franiatte: 'Nouvelles analyses de le céramique
khmère du Palais royal d'Angkor Thom: Etude Préliminaire'
-- Jacques Dumarçay: 'L'evolution de la couverture de
tuiles à Ankor du IXe au XVIe siècle'
-- Dawn Rooney: 'Khmer Ceramics: Their Role in Angkorian Society'
-- Ingrid Muan and Ly Daravuth: 'The Ceramics Section of the Department of Plastic Arts, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh'
-- Khmer translation of Bernard-Philippe Grolier,'Introduction to the Ceramic Wares of Angkor, Khmer Ceramics, 9th-14th Century Reports
-- Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding
Angkor: 'Preliminary Report on Ceramics recovered from the
Northern 'Library' of the Bayon Complex, Angkor Thom
-- Agency for Cultural Affairs, Nara National Cultural
Properties Research Institute, Japan, and the APSARA
Authority: 'Recent Research on Kiln Sites in the Angkor Area'
-- Sophia University Angkor International Mission,
Tokyo: 'Excavation of a Khmer Ceramic Kiln Site: Report of the Investigation of Kiln B1, Tani Kiln Complex'
-- World Monuments Fund Preah Khan Conservation Project: 'The Ceramics Collection at Preah Khan Temple'
-- Chinese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor: 'Report on Archeological Research at Chau Say Tevoda Temple, Angkor'
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Number 2, 2001
>From the Editors / Notes de redaction / (also in Khmer)
-- Elizabeth Guthrie: 'Outside the Sima'
-- Miriam Stark: 'Some Preliminary Results of the 1999-2000 Archaeological Field Investigations at Angkor Borei, Takeo Province'
-- Jacques Dumarçay: 'Résumé de l'histoire du baray
oriental et du baray de Neak Pean'
-- Pascal Royère: 'Note architecturale relative au
troisième étage du Baphuon'
-- Arndt Kiesewetter, Hans Leisen, Esther Plehwe v. Leisen: 'On the Polychromy of Angkor Vat: Results of Initial Paint Color Investigations'
-- Tan Boun Say: 'Mimosa pigra L : problématique au Cambodge et synthèse bibliographique'
-- Hang Chan Sophea and Lim Sru: 'An Overview of the Socio-economic Zones of Angkor' (in Khmer)
-- Martin Platt: 'Interview with Fon Fafang, a Kui-Khmer Writer in Thailand'
-- Khmer translation of Jean Filliozat, 'Rites de crémation à Bali'Reports
-- University of Otago ? APSARA Authority: 'A Test Excavation at Baksei Chamkrong, Angkor'
-- École Française d'Extrême-Orient: 'Perspectives
de la mission archéologique franco-khmère sur l'aménagement du territoire angkorien'
-- Nara National Cultural Properties Research Institute
APSARA Authority: 'Investigation of the Tani Kiln Site: Geophysical Prospections, Excavations and Site Presentation Proposal'
-- Sophia University Angkor International
Mission: 'Archaeological Research at Banteay Kdei Temple:
Overview of Investigations over the Past Ten Years'
-- Mission Archéologique Française au Cambodge: 'De
Yasodharapura à Angkor Thom: Archéologie, ville et histoire
urbaine'
-- Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor: 'Original Morphology and Successive Modifications of the Suor Prat Terraces giving onto the Royal Plaza of Angkor Thom'
-- Chinese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor: 'The East and South Entry Towers of Chau Say ..voda: Restoration Design Description'
-- Kanazawa University: 'A Brief Presentation of the Paleography of Cambodia at the Holocene Optimum'
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Number 3, to appear summer 2002 |
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