Calling in the soul: gender and the cycle of life in a Hmong village
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Main Author: Symonds, Patricia V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle University of Washington Press c2004
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-313) and index
Introduction: Conducting Research in a Hmong Village -- - 1 - Hmong Cosmology: A Balance of Opposites -- - 2 - Mothers, Daughters, and Wives -- - 3 - Birth: The Journey to the Land of Light -- - 4 - Death: The Journey to the Land of Darkness -- - 5 - Reflections on Power, Gender, and the Cycle of Life -- - Epilogue: HIV/AIDS and the Hmong in Thailand -- - App. A. - "Hu Plig (Calling in the Soul): Hmong Text -- - App. B. - "Showing the Way" (Qhuab Kev): English Translation -- - App. C. - "Qhuab Kev" (Showing the Way): Hmong Text -- - App. D. - Flower Village Demographics -- - App. E. - A Shamanic Healing in the United States -- - App. F. - Health Care and Gender Issues of Hmong in the United States
""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 beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices." "The social framework of the Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand), who have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries, is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of this structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xlix, 326 p.)
ISBN:0295800429
0295983264
0295983396
9780295800424
9780295983264
9780295983394

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