PCM - Anthropologie de la maladie et du mythe au Laos et en Asie du Sud-Est

Anthropology of illness and myth in Laos and in South-East Asia

Lao culture, the product of “syncretism without synthesis”

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Lao civilization is the result of superimposing various socio-historical strata: Thai and Indian with a predominant presence of Buddhism. While they are completely heterogeneous and incompatible, the worldviews from these different influences find coherence on the unconscious level. As Richard Pottier tells us, this is because these notions refer to the same semantic structures on the unconscious level.

Language: French
Length: 00:07:26

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Main cultural characteristics of a group, a community
Discourse type: Explanation

Origins (historical or mythical) of social communities
Discourse type: Explanation

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