International audienceAmong the Drung of Yunnan, the absence of any clearly identifiable territorial rituals calls into question the relationship between ancestrality, territory and political power within the framework of a common ritual goal : achieving fertility. This article presents an ethnographic description of two rituals associated with the notion of fertility—the ox sacrifice and the mountain cult—that used to coexist in Drung society. The links between these two rituals and their respective political implications are thus explored. While both rituals can be defined as fertility rituals, they each exhibit a different relationship to territory in its political acceptation. On the one hand, the ox sacrifice is exemplary of the dynami...
Cette étude ethnologique des Drung (Dulong) vise à situer cette petite société patrilinéaire tibéto-...
Relying mainly on field materials and historical documents, this study examines the tradition of Dao...
The Four Palace cult is a spirit possession cult of the Kinh people. After 1954 in the north of Viet...
L’absence, chez les Drung du Yunnan, de rituels clairement identifiables comme rituels territoriaux ...
26 p.Leach used the notion of “ritual language” in order to show that ritual acts are ways of “sayin...
Taking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religious organisation of the ...
International audienceThe notion of liang, common to all tai languages, denotes a multiplicity of pr...
Prenant principalement appui sur des matériaux de terrain et des documents historiques, la présente ...
This thesis explores animal spirit shamanism (chuma xian) as it occurs in Liaoning, China. Aspects o...
International audiencehis article examines, with reference to myths and narratives from the Wa of Xu...
International audienceTaking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religiou...
This thesis presents one localized perspective of contemporary multi-ethnic rural Chinese society. B...
This paper is concerned with the sovereignty and marginalization of an ethnic minority people. Altho...
This article focuses on the Sai-kang procession, an inter-communal ritual performed by local people,...
UNKThis paper presents the actual situation of "Wu lang" god worship of Han-Chinese in the Dali dist...
Cette étude ethnologique des Drung (Dulong) vise à situer cette petite société patrilinéaire tibéto-...
Relying mainly on field materials and historical documents, this study examines the tradition of Dao...
The Four Palace cult is a spirit possession cult of the Kinh people. After 1954 in the north of Viet...
L’absence, chez les Drung du Yunnan, de rituels clairement identifiables comme rituels territoriaux ...
26 p.Leach used the notion of “ritual language” in order to show that ritual acts are ways of “sayin...
Taking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religious organisation of the ...
International audienceThe notion of liang, common to all tai languages, denotes a multiplicity of pr...
Prenant principalement appui sur des matériaux de terrain et des documents historiques, la présente ...
This thesis explores animal spirit shamanism (chuma xian) as it occurs in Liaoning, China. Aspects o...
International audiencehis article examines, with reference to myths and narratives from the Wa of Xu...
International audienceTaking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religiou...
This thesis presents one localized perspective of contemporary multi-ethnic rural Chinese society. B...
This paper is concerned with the sovereignty and marginalization of an ethnic minority people. Altho...
This article focuses on the Sai-kang procession, an inter-communal ritual performed by local people,...
UNKThis paper presents the actual situation of "Wu lang" god worship of Han-Chinese in the Dali dist...
Cette étude ethnologique des Drung (Dulong) vise à situer cette petite société patrilinéaire tibéto-...
Relying mainly on field materials and historical documents, this study examines the tradition of Dao...
The Four Palace cult is a spirit possession cult of the Kinh people. After 1954 in the north of Viet...