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) |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English Hmong |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2014]
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
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