The anthropologist Jacques Dournes' doctoral thesis, published by Flammarion in 1977, is a study of the kings of fire, water and wind (Pötao) and one of the masterpieces of the anthropology of Southeast Asia. The full text is published here in Vietnamese for the first time.
Jacques Dournes, Potao - một lý thuyết về quyền lực ở người Jorai Đông Dương. Translation by Nguyên Ngọc of Pötao - une théorie du pouvoir chez les Indochinois jörai. Introduced by Lê Hồng Lý & Andrew Hardy. EFEO / Institute of Culture (Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences), Hanoi: Nxb. Tri Thức, 592 p.


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