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FIGURE 14.3 Rice fields in the floodplains surrounding Tonle Sap Lake.

fish or crocodiles which they sell commercially (Figure 14.8). Otherwise, services
are extremely limited, with refuse and sanitary waste discharged near where drink-
ing water is obtained. Fishing is the major source of income for most of the villag-
ers. These villages include many of the attributes common in normal Cambodian
communities, such as brightly colored shops and markets, schools (in this case with
fenced-in playing “fields”), pagodas or churches, casual restaurants, and dentists and
barbers (Figure 14.9). And as was once the case in the Iraqi marshlands (Fulanain
1928), there is a floating economy of traveling merchants and craftsmen who make
their way from village to village peddling their goods and services.