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 cosmological belie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Symonds, Patricia V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hmong
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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)
Filiation patrilinéaire > Thaïlande (Nord)
Américains d'origine miao > Mœurs et coutumes.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conducting research in a Hmong village
  • Hmong cosmology : a balance of opposites
  • Mothers, daughters, and wives
  • Birth : the journey to the land of light
  • Death : the journey to the land of darkness
  • Reflections on power, gender, and the cycle of life
  • Epilogue : HIV/AIDS and the Hmong in Thailand.

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