Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cylce 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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0295983264

ISBN13:9780295983264

Release Date:January 2003

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Length:326 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cylce of Life in a Hmong Village

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