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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Main Author: Symonds, Patricia V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hmong
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
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