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

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""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 cosmol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Symonds, Patricia V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2004.
Temas:
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.
Miao (Peuple d'Asie) > Thaïlande (Nord) > Rites et cérémonies.
Femmes miao > Thaïlande (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > Thaïlande (Nord)
Division sexuelle du travail > Thaïlande (Nord)
Filiation patrilinéaire > Thaïlande (Nord)
Américains d'origine miao > Mœurs et coutumes.
Partage des tâches domestiques > Thaïlande (Nord)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
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
Geschlechterrolle
Lebenslauf
Kosmologie
Frau
Thailand, Northern > Social life and customs.
Thaïlande (Nord) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Northern Thailand
Thailand
Miao.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Conducting Research in a Hmong Village
  • 1. Hmong Cosmology: A Balance of Opposites
  • 2. Mothers, Daughters, and Wives
  • 3. Birth: The Journey to the Land of Light
  • 4. Death: The Journey to the Land of Darkness
  • 5. Reflections on Power, Gender, and the Cycle of Life
  • Epilogue: HIV/AIDS and the Hmong in Thailand
  • App. A. "Hu Plig (Calling in the Soul): Hmong Text
  • App. B. "Showing the Way" (Qhuab Kev): English Translation
  • App. C. "Qhuab Kev" (Showing the Way): Hmong Text
  • App. D. Flower Village Demographics
  • App. E. A Shamanic Healing in the United States
  • App. F. Health Care and Gender Issues of Hmong in the United States.

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