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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 cosmological belie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Symonds, Patricia V. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	Inglés Hmong
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	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.
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