Nepalese chiefs and gods / Gisele Krauskopff -- The cult of the earth goddess among the Magar of Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- The Burmese Nats: between sovereignty and autochthony / Benedictine Brac de la Perriere -- Tai cosmology and the influence of Buddhism / Bernard Formoso -- Ties of blood and earth in Japan / Laurence Caillet -- The relationship between society and nature among the Hani people of China / Pascal Bouchery -- Ancestors and the forest among the Brou of Vietnam / Gabor Vargyas -- Portrait of the Humanist as Proteus / Michel Jeanneret -- Shaped in the image of reason: the world according to Sherlock / Gerhard van der Linde.