| Titre | Des paysans dans la jungle. Le piégeage dans le rapport des Tharu au monde de la forêt | |
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| Auteur | Gisèle Krauskopff | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 107-108, 1987 Paysages | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Paysages et divinités en Himalaya |
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| Page | 27-42 | |
| Résumé anglais |
On peasants in the Jungle : Trapping in Tharu Relations with the Forest World
The ways the Tharu, peasants who live in the paludal forest of Terai, use snares are described. Neither hunting nor fishing call for bloodshed. When they invoke the spirits of violent death, who are responsible for most diseases, priests use ritual techniques depending on the "landscape category" (dwelling sites or forest) with which these spirits are associated. "In the forest", the priest, at its edge (like the hunter who never goes deeps into it), tries to trap spirits whereas, at a dwelling site, he "nails" them by burying them in the ground. He offers "sacrifices of breath", which do not call for bloodshed, to forest spirits. How do Tharu rites symbolically work to "put the landscape in order" ? This ritual ordering of the world is underlaid by a separation between village and forest and based upon a relationship to the forest world that is marked by an attitude, characteristic of this peasant society, of withdrawal and nonviolence. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1987_num_107_1_3200 |
