Forests, Spirits and High Modernist Development : A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and Vietnam
This thesis explores how Katuic-speaking indigenous groups in the Central Annamitic Cordillera of Vietnam and Laos understand their environment – hills, streams and forest. Katuic eco-cosmology assumes that the natural landscape is imbued with spirit agents, with whom people must continuously commun...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi
2015
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236880 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-9113-0 |