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The 'Soul' of the Tai re-examinedThe Khwan Concept and Tham Khwan Ceremony of the Tai-Speaking Peoples. E-book. Formato PDF
Barend Jan Terwiel
edizioni Galda Verlag collana , 2023
Khwan is certainly one of the most enigmatic concepts one encounters in the study of the Tai-speaking world. Variously rendered as 'soul', 'vital principle' or 'life essence', the concept eludes unambiguous translations as Western ontologies and the languages that reproduce them simply lack an analogous signifier....