The article "The Khmer Mentality" by Professor Sar Sarun outlines ten core traits that shape traditional Khmer identity: matriarchy, hidden strength, self-praise, agricultural roots, indifference to rules, inactivity, confusion over commitments, extremism, honoring oaths, and devotion to chastity. These traits are examined through historical, cultural, and environmental lenses, offering insight into both the strengths and challenges within Khmer society.

A helpful cultural orientation for Cambodia

While written with Thai culture in mind, there are many cross-overs that also relate to Khmer Folk Buddhism.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the Unreached Peoples of Cambodia to Christians, so that prayer for these peoples, ministry to these peoples and friendship with these peoples might increase in our generation.

This booklet provides a very good description of the theory of oral communication and the need to use this approach with most of the peoples of the world.

A free curriculum series and other resources for studying the language and culture in Cambodia.

An article on how to reach Buddhists.

A great wake-up call on the critical importance of language and culture and why so many of us fall short.

Highlights the importance of the sower of Matthew 13 to understand and cultivate the soil into which he was sowing, and the significance of this for modern missions.

Should foreign churches, organizations or individuals support national churches or preachers in other countries?

A scanned chapter from James Spradley’s “The Ethnographic Interview”

Dr. Ian Dicks of Global Interaction has developed the Engaging Culture and Worldview Inquiry Programme (ECWIP) to assist cross-cultural workers to better understand the host culture.  In total, it is a three year programme spanning 30 topics of inquiry and outlines the basic steps necessary for developing an insider’s perspective on the host culture. The programme should take up to 5 hours a week.