Calling in the soul : gender and the cycle of life in a Hmong village

Calling in the soul : gender and the cycle of life in a Hmong village /

"Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological belie...

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Main Author: Symonds, Patricia V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hmong
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Hmong (Asian people) > Thailand, Northern > Rites and ceremonies.
Women, Hmong > Thailand, Northern > Social conditions.
Sex role > Thailand, Northern.
Sexual division of labor > Thailand, Northern.
Patrilineal kinship > Thailand, Northern.
Hmong Americans > Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Hmong Americans > Social life and customs
Hmong (Asian people) > Rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Patrilineal kinship
Sex role
Sexual division of labor
Women, Hmong > Social conditions
Thailand, Northern > Social life and customs.
Thaïlande (Nord) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Northern Thailand
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