Pierre Petit is Senior Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests include mobility, ethnicity, and interactions with the state among the Tai Vat of Houaphan.

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• 1. Introduction 2. The setting 3. Traditions on origins 4. From the French colony to the present 5. The ethnography of territorial cults 6. Territorial cults in a regional perspective 7. Conclusion

Pierre Petit is Senior Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests include mobility, ethnicity, and interactions with the state among the Tai Vat of Houaphan.

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• 1. Introduction 2. The setting 3. Traditions on origins 4. From the French colony to the present 5. The ethnography of territorial cults 6. Territorial cults in a regional perspective 7. Conclusion

Pierre Petit is Senior Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests include mobility, ethnicity, and interactions with the state among the Tai Vat of Houaphan.

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• 1. Introduction 2. The setting 3. Traditions on origins 4. From the French colony to the present 5. The ethnography of territorial cults 6. Territorial cults in a regional perspective 7. Conclusion