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… Continued from Article 1 Article by Marie-Alpais Dumoulin, director of IRFA, published in the June 2022 issue of Revue MEP. From nature to culture Indeed, year after year, the missionary moved from simply compiling a “European-style” herbarium to studying indigenous taxonomies: he wanted to know how the Jörai named living things, how they used […]
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Article available on the IRFA website: here Father Jacques Dournes, a MEP missionary in the Vietnamese Highlands from 1947 to 1968, followed in the long ethnographic tradition established by his predecessors, but took it much further by developing genuine scientific studies. Passionate about the culture of the Jörai ethnic group to which he devoted his […]
By André Mary CNRS, published as part of the research theme “Missionary Anthropology,” directed by André Mary (CNRS) See the article by clicking here. It was as a Catholic missionary that Jacques Dournes (1922-1993) first traveled to Vietnam in the late 1940s, then under French colonial rule. He discovered his vocation for ethnology and left […]
