essay
Fastening the soul: some religious traits among the Lamet (French Indochina)
Compass for fields afar: essays in social anthropology, by Karl Gustav Izikowitz • Göteborg, Sweden • Published In 1985 • Pages: 212-257
By: Izikowitz, Karl Gustav.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Rmeet (Lamet) religion recognizes several spirits and supernatural beings believed to reside in human body parts, particular locations within villages, certain crops (most notably rice) and animals, and some natural features and entities. This essay discusses the centrality of such spirits and “souls” in shaping seasonal farming practices, organized rituals, settlement patterns, inter-village relations, burial rituals, clan totems, and other aspects of life at the family and community levels. The Rmeet also recognize certain religious personalities believed to help families and villages deal with malevolent spirits and souls through a combination of sacrificial appeasements and preventive magic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Animism
- Animism
- Cosmology
- Cult of the dead
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Clans
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Division of labor by gender
- Burial practices and funerals
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Magic
- Spirits and gods
- Public structures
- Sacred objects and places
- Inter-community relations
- Avoidance and taboo
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rmeet
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- May 1937-January 1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luang Namtha, Oudômxai, and Bokèo provinces, Laos
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karl Gustav Izikowitz
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86162478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lamet (Laotian people)