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28 November 2008

Sar Luk today

"We have eaten the forest"

Contents:  "We have eaten the forest"  - Introduction  - Aim of the exhibition  - Synopsis        * Ethnology as an art of living        * The Sar Luk villagers        * A poetic and oral tradition        * Burning the forest of the stone spirit Goo        * Works and days        * Buffalo sacrifice        * Sickness and death         * Sar Luk today  - The purpose of ethnography: an interview with Georges Condominas with Yves Goudineau  - Biography of Georges Condominas  - Main publications

 

Sar Luk today

 

Georges Condominas returns

 

“At first encounter, their customs appear picturesque, exotic, as if perpetuating almost unchanged a tradition going back to the dawn of time. But these ‘Men of the Forest’ are men no less, and men of the twentieth century to boot, enmeshed in a socio-economic system that covers the entire planet. For them, this means, among other things, payment of taxes, working in plantations or on roads, imposition of a monetary system upon their barter economy, a life ordered by a hierarchical administration, the introduction of writing and medical care, and enlistment in the army or the Indochinese Guard.”

 

 

Sraang and Georges Condominas, Sar Luk, 2006 © musée du quai Branly/ photo Robert van der Hilst

 

A Vietnamese viewpoint

 

		Mrs Hdrang and her 7-month-old baby daughter © Hoang Canh Duong

 

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