Dieu Python Movement
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[edit] Dieu Python Movement
In 1937, a Montagnard village chief by the name of Sam Bam announced that his daugther had given birth to a python. The Montagnards of began to stop cultivating their land, because they believed that this python was the Python-God sent to rid the Central Highlands of Vietnam, of all foreigners. People began to attack the French because they had been given 'magical water' which were to make them invulnerable to French bullets. This rebellion was quickly repressed by the French.
The French interpreted this rebellion as an expression of dissatifaction of colonial rule; later the Catholic mission interpreted this as a movement stirred by soccerers with Viet. This revived the anthropological tradition of having ethnographic material performed on the region for the benefit of the colonial government.
[edit] References
AOM Gougal F 03.79: Annexe du rapport politique de l'Annam, 9/1937
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