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The elephants of Bản Đôn
For more than a century the village of Bản Đôn, on the Srêpôk river west of Buôn Ma Thuột, was known across mainland Southeast Asia for one thing: the men there caught wild elephants and tamed them. The hunters were Mnong, Lao, Jarai and Rhade; the most famous of them was honored by the King of Siam. Today the tame elephants are few and old, and...
The Mnong (Bunong)
The Mnong live on both sides of the border: in Đắk Nông and southern Đắk Lắk in Vietnam, and in Mondulkiri in Cambodia, where they call themselves Bunong and are the largest of the province’s indigenous peoples. They are the people of Condominas’s We Have Eaten the Forest, of the elephant hunters of Bản Đôn, and of N’Trang Lơng’s resistance of m...
Hunting, the crossbow and the forest
Every highland household farmed, and hunting was part of most men’s lives, with the crossbow as its mark; among the Bru, boys began to learn it at five or six. The forest gave meat, fish, fruit, medicine and poison, and our peoples knew it the way farmers know a field.
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