Calling in the soul : gender and the cycle of life in a Hmong village /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Symonds, Patricia V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hmong
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Hmong (Asian people) > Thailand, Northern > Rites and ceremonies.
Women, Hmong > Thailand, Northern > Social conditions.
Sex role > Thailand, Northern.
Sexual division of labor > Thailand, Northern.
Patrilineal kinship > Thailand, Northern.
Hmong Americans > Social life and customs.
Thailand, Northern > Social life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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