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Performing the divine : mediums, markets and modernity in urban Vietnam /

"Vietnam in the last two decades has experienced not only market reform and significant economic growth but also a related, symbiotic revival of popular religion. It is no surprise, then, that popular beliefs and rituals that once were attacked as wasteful and superstitious have again become a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Endres, Kirsten W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Copenhagen : Abingdon : NIAS Press ; Marston [distributor], 2011.
Colección:Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 118.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : inviting the spirits
  • Personal fate and spirit identities
  • Performing the divine
  • Negotiating the rules of proper performance
  • The (gendered) world of mediumship
  • The heritagisation of Four Palace mediumship
  • Epilogue : return to the realm.