Những biến đổi trong tập tục thờ cúng Neak Ta của người Khmer (Nghiên cứu trường hợp ấp Kósla, xã Thanh Sơn, huyện Trà Cú, tỉnh Trà Vinh)

Abstract

Along with the changes of social life under the impacts of  the urbanization, cultural life of Khmer community in the Mekong Delta has also changed a lot especially in worshipping Neak Ta which has been  being transformed  and  blurred in Khmer people’s consciousness. This article aims to depict and analyze the changes in worshipping Neak Ta in Kólsa hamlet, Thanh Son Village, Tra Cu District, Tra Vinh Province as a case study to raise people’s awareness of conserving the original of this ceremony in particular and the values of Khmer’s folklore in general.