Mlengbrou people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 12 (2019) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Nakai District, Khammouane Province, Laos | |
| Languages | |
| Mlengbrou | |
| Religion | |
| Shamanism |
Mlengbrou is an very small ethnic group of Laos.[1] The Mlengbrou currently is the most extreme endangered among many vulnerable Vietic groups, with only 2 families and 12 living villagers in 2019.[2][3] Their original population in the 1940s was 25 families, but has been rapidly declining since the Nam Theun 2 Dam's resettling program began in 1997.[2]
The Mlengbrou are traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers, their life relies on the forest. They say the dholes (an Asiatic wild dog) may be followed by the strong odor which they exude and when a kill is discovered and the dholes have been chased away, a front leg of the dead animal is cut off and given back to the dholes. To them, the dhole is the sacred animal, the intermediary between life and death.[2]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Chazee, Laurent (1999). The Peoples of Laos: Rural and Ethnic Diversities : with an Ethno-linguistic Map. White Lotus Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-9-74843-486-5. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chamberlain, James R. 2018. A Kri-Mol (Vietic) Bestiary: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnozoology in the Northern Annamites. Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies No. 133. Kyoto: Kyoto University.
- ↑ Rigg, Jonathan (2012). Living with Transition in Laos:Market Intergration in Southeast Asia. Taylor & Francis. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-134-25357-9. Search this book on
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