French anthropologist Jacques Dournes lived in Vietnam for 25 years, from 1946 to 1970, studying the culture of the Jarai and other highland ethnic groups. He became a renowned ethnographer and the Jarai people became his lifelong passion.
In part 1 of this study, Andrew Hardy explores Dournes's challenging monograph Potao, une th orie de pouvoir chez les Indochinois jorai and his views on the role of the highlanders in ancient Champa...