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
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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