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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 cosmol...

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Main Author: Symonds, Patricia V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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