La Newsletter Du Fin Fond Du Grenier No II - August 2007.

What to excavate this month ? Du Fin Fond Du Grenier. Picture and notes on the Saigon mosque built by Indians in 1935 in "A mosque in Saigon". Dont forget to view new contemporary B&W pictures on Chams in Cambodia in the August selection album : "http://fin-fond-grenier.over-blog.com/album1034204.html">album.

From the bookcase.

An old essential classic: CABATON Antoine Nouvelles recherches sur les Chams , EFEO, Paris, 1901, 216p. Click on the link to download it or directly go to: http://www.4shared.com/dir/3461201/f51b0435/sharing.html * Thanks to Marc Brunell from Ottawa University for sharing this document and Pittayawat Pittayaporn from Cornell University to make sure it would be available as a complete PDF file. More recent: "Bayon New perspectives", Ed. Joyce Clark,River Books, Bangkok, 2007, 416 p. With contributions from: Ang Choulean, Olivier Cunin, Claude Jacques, TS Maxwell, Vittorio Roveda, Anne-Valrie Schweyer, Peter D. Sharrock, Michael Vickery and Hiram Woodward.

Wondering how the Bayon temple and the chams studies could ever be connecter? Review the connections between the two countries and the links between Jayavarman VII and the Champa through some of these articles. More info on: http://www.riverbooksbk.com/catalog/product_info.php?prod ucts_id=212&osCsid=07da3d4926b6350a2a7e50638a55f0e0 * Thanks to Olivier Cunin for the source. And also: BIN ABDUL HAMID Mohamed Effendy Understanding the Cham Identity in Mainland Southeast Asia: Contending Views, SOJOURN Journal of Socia Issues in Southeast Asia, vol 21, No 2, 2006, p 230-253. * Thanks to Peter Hammer for the source. From the virtual corner. The website Champapura.net gives you all the essential to know on Chams (mainly in Vietnam) in French. Open the link or go to: http://briag.club.fr/champa/index.html

From the events envelope. The conference Champa 2007 held in San Jose, California, July 7 and July 8 was the occasion for both the cham communities and international scholars to discuss "Sociocultural Issues of Champa 175 Years After Its Disappearance". Press articles will soon be published, and proceedings will be available in the Champaka Journal. Du Fin Fond DuGrenier will keep you posted on any further publications. The International Workshop Islam at the Margins: the Muslims of Indochina was held in the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) in Kyoto University, on

the 20 May 2007. More info and the program on the link or directly go to: www.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.php/news_detail/id/74. * Thanks to Shine San for the info. Thats all for this month, more to come in September! Emiko Stock - Du Fin Fond Du Grenier