Taking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religious organisation of the “Asian base” further, we propose approaching rituals linked to the territorial prosperity of groups living on the margins of state power in the Chinese and Indian worlds in a comparative way. These rituals are organised around the recurring schema of a force of place, both natural and wild, which was pacified by a founding ancestor who, along with his descendants, became the sacrificers representing the entire community—a schema the details and variations of which we have analysed. By legitimising the occupation of a space by one group and promoting its fertility, these rituals are where many interlocking stakes are crystallised. These involv...
"This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how c...
This paper is concerned with the sovereignty and marginalization of an ethnic minority people. Altho...
In Arakan, a western state of contemporary Burma and an ancient Buddhist kingdom, shamans who perfor...
International audienceTaking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religiou...
Faisant suite à l’idée de Paul Mus concernant l’existence d’une « religion cadastrale » constitutive...
In China, as in India, ritual roles are distributed across the entire social field, rather than bein...
International audienceAmong the Drung of Yunnan, the absence of any clearly identifiable territorial...
Prenant principalement appui sur des matériaux de terrain et des documents historiques, la présente ...
26 p.Leach used the notion of “ritual language” in order to show that ritual acts are ways of “sayin...
Thèse soutenue en Sciences de l'Education, requalification demandée en Anthropologie au vu du sujet ...
This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how co...
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or ins...
This paper presents information on the shamanic religious system practiced among the Tu ethnic group...
After the 1680s, Big Vehicle Religion gradually developed on the Yunnan-Burma frontier. It was banne...
This article explores ritual practices among the Premi people in Southwest China at the beginning of...
"This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how c...
This paper is concerned with the sovereignty and marginalization of an ethnic minority people. Altho...
In Arakan, a western state of contemporary Burma and an ancient Buddhist kingdom, shamans who perfor...
International audienceTaking Paul Mus’s idea of a “cadastral religion” as part of the socio-religiou...
Faisant suite à l’idée de Paul Mus concernant l’existence d’une « religion cadastrale » constitutive...
In China, as in India, ritual roles are distributed across the entire social field, rather than bein...
International audienceAmong the Drung of Yunnan, the absence of any clearly identifiable territorial...
Prenant principalement appui sur des matériaux de terrain et des documents historiques, la présente ...
26 p.Leach used the notion of “ritual language” in order to show that ritual acts are ways of “sayin...
Thèse soutenue en Sciences de l'Education, requalification demandée en Anthropologie au vu du sujet ...
This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how co...
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or ins...
This paper presents information on the shamanic religious system practiced among the Tu ethnic group...
After the 1680s, Big Vehicle Religion gradually developed on the Yunnan-Burma frontier. It was banne...
This article explores ritual practices among the Premi people in Southwest China at the beginning of...
"This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how c...
This paper is concerned with the sovereignty and marginalization of an ethnic minority people. Altho...
In Arakan, a western state of contemporary Burma and an ancient Buddhist kingdom, shamans who perfor...