Pnong
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- For the town Phnong, see Bar KhamBar KhamBar Kham is a commune in Ou Ya Dav District in northeast Cambodia. It contains six villages and has a population of 1,392. In the 2007 commune council elections, three of the commune's five seats went to the Cambodian People's Party, one went to the Sam Rainsy Party, and one went to Funcinpec. The...
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The Pnong are an aboriginal
Indigenous peoples
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Cambodia
Cambodia
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n minority ethnic group
Ethnic group
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, found primarily in Mondulkiri
Mondulkiri
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province of Cambodia, and speaking a Mon–Khmer language.
The Pnong minority are normally not members of any organized religion
Religion
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, but instead are animists who revere nature.
Pnong in the media
A Pnong woman, thought to be Rochom P'ngieng, was discovered after presumably spending 19 years alone in the jungle.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244440,00.htmlBraden Pewitt has written a 106-page book to help analyze and understand how the Pnong view the world. Braden Pewitt is a missionary working with the Adventist Frontiers, and his book is as such an assessment of the Pnong worldview in the context of potential convertations. For more neutral works on the Pnong, see "Living on the margins", the publications of Nomad RSI, or, more generally, the work of Frédéric Bourdier.