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Jacques Lemoine, « La restauration de l'image du moi dans le chamanisme des Yao », Aséanie, Sciences humaines en Asie du Sud-Est, ID : 10.3406/asean.2000.1685
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The Yao considered in this article belong to the Yao Mien group, the only Yao group to be found in Thailand. When healing illness, the Yao Mien traditionally resort to two different kinds of practices - medicinal herbs (or nowadays western medicine) for natural diseases and, if illness lasts for an unusual period of time or seems to be caused by supernatural forces, the intervention of a religious specialist. In that case, besides Taoist rituals derived from the Meishan and Lüshan doctrines, they resort to shamanistic activities which are split into two different phases : first, the establishment of a diagnosis or beou ' kwaa and, second, a shaman's expedition in the other world in order to recapture the runaway souls of his patient and return them to their owner (ts'ang woueri). The present article focuses mainly on the recapture of the souls which constitute the image of the self of the patient and their return to his/her body, which amounts to a restauration of the self image.