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- Title
Differentiated Origins: Trajectories of Transcultural Knowledge in Laos and Beyond.
- Authors
Sprenger, Guido
- Abstract
Ethnicity belongs to the most important types of differentiation in Laos. Among the means to establish such differences is the ascription of bodies of knowledge to various ethnicities. Ritual healing knowledge is often associated with the foreign and the culturally different. The attribution of differentiated categories of foreignness thus supports the emergence and reproduction of ethnic differentiation and interethnic communication in this region. This article compares ritual healing among Rmeet in Laos, Karen in Thailand, and lu Mien in both countries in respect to the ethnotopography of its origins.
- Subjects
LAOS; THAILAND; CROSS-cultural communication; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; TRADITIONAL medicine; KAREN (Southeast Asian people); YAO (Southeast Asian people); ETHNIC relations
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 2, p224
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/sj26-2d