ISBN:
0295983264
,
0295983396
,
9780295994215
Language:
English
Pages:
XLIX, 336 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
DDC:
305.895/9420593
Keywords:
Américains d'origine miao - Mœurs et coutumes
;
Division sexuelle du travail - Thaïlande (Nord)
;
Femmes miao - Thaïlande (Nord) - Conditions sociales
;
Filiation patrilinéaire - Thaïlande (Nord)
;
Miao (Peuple d'Asie) - Thaïlande (Nord) - Rites et cérémonies
;
Partage des tâches domestiques - Thaïlande (Nord)
;
Rôle selon le sexe - Thaïlande (Nord)
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Hmong (Asian people) Rites and ceremonies
;
Hmong Americans Social life and customs
;
Patrilineal kinship
;
Sex role
;
Sexual division of labor
;
Women, Hmong Social conditions
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Lebenslauf
;
Frau
;
Kosmologie
;
Miao
;
Thaïlande (Nord) - Mœurs et coutumes
;
Thailand, Northern Social life and customs
;
Thailand
;
Thailand
;
Miao
;
Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Miao
;
Lebenslauf
;
Kosmologie
Abstract:
""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.
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