By Patricia V. Symonds
ISBN-10: 0295994215
ISBN-13: 9780295994215
ISBN-10: 0295996307
ISBN-13: 9780295996301
�Calling within the Soul� (Hu Plig) is the mantra the Hmong use to lead the soul of a infant child into its physique at the 3rd day after beginning. in accordance with broad unique learn carried out within the overdue Eighties in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic learn examines Hmong cosmological ideals in regards to the cycle of existence as expressed in practices surrounding start, marriage, and loss of life and considers the gender relationships glaring in those practices. The Hmong (or Miao, as they're known as in China, and Meo, in Thailand) have lived at the fringes of robust Southeast Asian states for hundreds of years. Their social framework is pretty patrilineal, granting little direct energy to ladies. but in the limits of that constitution, Hmong girls wield substantial impression within the spiritually serious nation-states of start and dying. Calling within the Soul should be of curiosity to sociocultural anthropologists, scientific anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists.
Replaces ISBN 9780295800424
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Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village by Patricia V. Symonds
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