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Video-glossary : Bun
Richard POTTIER : Lao culture, the product of “syncretism without synthesis”
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Bun (merit)
  in : Richard POTTIER : "Anthropology of illness and myth in Laos and in South-East Asia"
Bun (merit)
  in : Richard POTTIER : "Anthropology of illness and myth in Laos and in South-East Asia"
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.







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