Chapter Seven: Health and Religion
There�s a reason these two seemingly distinct topics are grouped together in this chapter: religion�making sense of life, death, the cosmos and linking that understanding to a moral framework for human conduct�and the larger than life realities of illness, sickness, and death, and how we deal with them both represent facts of existence none of us can escape from. Here we�ll learn how the majority of Khmers deal with these issues and make sense of those aspects of life that we can�t change.
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Learning the Parts of the Body
An example of the kinds of basic vocabulary you'll learn to use in talking about the human body.
Grammar Explanations: Talking about Illness and Misfortune
The material in the pages below is typical of the kind of explanation of Khmer grammar that appears throughout the textbook.
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