20 janvier 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Nicolas Lainé, « Spirits and Divinations », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10670/1.0ytyfl
At the end of the fieldwork, it appeared that each capturer I met had his own practices, beliefs and personal experiences. Unlike the customary ritual of the Hma in Cambodia, as studied by the French historian Jean Ellul, there is not, among the Khamti, a set of strictly defined rules (Ellul 1983) on the practices to be performed while catching elephants. Despite a plurality of collected and observed practices and beliefs, some seem regu...