Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia

Christian Culas is a Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the French Institute on Contemporary South-East Asia (IRASEC – CNRS-French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) at Hanoi belonging to the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). François Robinne is Director of Research in CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and Director of IRSEA (Institute of Research on South-East Asia) at the Université de Provence, France.

• Introduction C. Culas and F. Robinne Part I: Ethnonyms : Naming oneself, naming others and being named in a multi-ethnic complex 1. The ethnonyms of the Hmong in Vietnam: Early history (1856-1924) and practical epistemology Christian Culas 2. Rai, Khambu, Kirant etc.: ethnic labels or political and land tenure categories ? Logics of identification of an ensemble of populations in Nepal Grégoire Schlemmer 3. Making ethnonyms in a clan social organization: The case of the so-called Kachin subgroups (Burma) François Robinne 4. Names and Territoriality among the Phunoy: How The State creates Ethnic Group (Lao PDR) Vanina BoutéPart II: Spatial configurations and appropriation of the social landscapre in multi-ethnic contexts 5. A Sense of Place. The Spatial Referent in the Definition of Identities and Territories in the Dulong Valley (Northwest Yunnan - China) Stéphane Gros 6. Territorial construction and ethnic relations in the context of collectivisation A case study from a mountain area in Northern Vietnam Marie MellacPart III: Presence and use of the Other in religious rituals7. Orthodox Russians, Siberian shamanists and a bear : How do you take an oath in Siberia ? Jean-Luc Lambert 8. The illness is the other people: cross representations and ritual mangement of alterity and illness among the Kulung (Nepal) Grégoire Schlemmer 9. Presence and use of the Burmese legend heritage in the dynamic of interethnic relations (South Shan State) François RobinnePart IV: Analyse a-contrario 10. Ethnic Isolationism in the China-Southeast Asia Borderlands Nicholas Tapp