ISBN:
9780230114937
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 219 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
Contemporary anthropology of religion
DDC:
306.6/09597
Keywords:
Anthropology of religion
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Mediums
;
Spirit possession
;
Goddess religion
;
Vietnam
;
Religiösität
;
Ritual
;
Soziale Situation
;
Anthropologie
;
Vietnam Religious life and customs
;
Vietnam Social life and customs
;
Vietnam
;
Prozession
;
Medium
;
Ritual
Abstract:
"Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The product of collaborative research by an American anthropologist and a Vietnamese folklorist, the work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again, the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries, and the current spread of the ritual to non-Vietnamese in the USA"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Border crossings : setting the theoretical stage -- Spirited research : studying lên đò̂ng in Vietnam and California -- Đạo Mã̂u spirits, temples, and rituals -- Spiritual callings : becoming a medium in the contemporary world -- "Lên đò̂nging" in Silicon Valley -- The Vietnam-Cali connection -- "You have to respect the local spirits".
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