MoussonsSeptember 23, 2019Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière1 citation
Transposing a field of practices into a constituted knowledge is highly problematic for the ethnographer observing practices founded on the experience of the spiritual world. How can a so-called spiritual experience be observed? How can it be transformed into an ethnographical knowledge? Drawing on two contrasted cases issued from my fieldwork in Burma, spirit possession and esoteric Buddhism,...
Spirits mediums of the Four Palaces have been taking part for a long time, along with other religious specialists, in the Vietnamese therapeutic area. They have helped, and still do despite historical upheavals, taking care of different kind of illnesses through rituals and, more generally, through spirits’ interventions. If healing is only one side of the worship, beside religious, political...