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
Autor principal: Symonds, Patricia V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hmong
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women, Hmong > Social conditions.
Sexual division of labor.
Sex role.
Patrilineal kinship.
Manners and customs.
Hmong (Asian people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Hmong Americans > Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Americains d'origine miao > Moeurs et coutumes.
Filiation patrilineaire > Thaïlande (Nord)
Rôle selon le sexe > Thaïlande (Nord)
Femmes miao > Thaïlande (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Miao (Peuple d'Asie) > Thaïlande (Nord) > Rites et ceremonies.
Patrilineal kinship > Thailand, Northern.
Sexual division of labor > Thailand, Northern.
Sex role > Thailand, Northern.
Women, Hmong > Thailand, Northern > Social conditions.
Hmong (Asian people) > Thailand, Northern > Rites and ceremonies.
Northern Thailand.
Thaïlande (Nord) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Thailand, Northern > Social life and customs.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social framework of the Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand), who have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries, is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of this structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (386 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780295805658

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