Calling in the Soul pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024


Calling in the Soul

简体网页||繁体网页
Patricia V. Symonds
University of Washington Press
2000-9-1
376
GBP 16.99
Paperback
9780295983394

图书标签: Hmong  anthropology  難民史  西文  苗人  宗教  历史  人类学   


喜欢 Calling in the Soul 的读者还喜欢




点击这里下载
    


想要找书就要到 小哈图书下载中心
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

发表于2024-12-24

Calling in the Soul epub 下载 mobi 下载 pdf 下载 txt 电子书 下载 2024

Calling in the Soul epub 下载 mobi 下载 pdf 下载 txt 电子书 下载 2024

Calling in the Soul pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024



图书描述

"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.Patricia Symonds situates her study within the landscape of northern Thai mountain life and anthropological perspectives on the Hmong, and then focuses on 'Flower Village', telling detailed stories of births, marriages, and deaths. Recurring motifs emerge: the complementarity of women's and men's roles in daily life and in the otherworld, and their reversal at critical moments; the importance of the brother-sister relationship; the social and spiritual significance of the ceremonial clothing women create, especially their embroidered 'flower cloth' and the ambiguously nuanced sev, or 'modesty aprons', they wear; the endlessly cyclical nature of life, from birth to death to birth again; the importance of sound and silence at times of transition; and the complex connections between the land of the living and the land of the dead.Hmong women's primary source of power in the patriline is their fecundity, through which they influence key spiritual aspects of the life cycle. This value and power is evident in the division of bride-price into two parts: 'milk and care money', which compensates a woman's parents for her upbringing; and payment for the 'birth shirt', or placenta, of the child the young wife will produce. Through provision of birth shirts for fetuses and of elaborately embroidered cloth shirts for the dead, women literally clothe the soul through cycles of rebirth.An epilogue and appendixes provide a discussion of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Hmong of Thailand, cultural factors in HIV transmission, and strategies for containment; complete Hmong texts and English translations of "Calling in the Soul," and "Showing the Way," the chant which guides the soul of the deceased through the land of darkness and back to reincarnation in a new body in the land of light; Flower Village demographic information; and an account of a shamanic healing and outline of Hmong health care issues in the United States. Calling in the Soul will be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists. Patricia V. Symonds is adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. She is the coauthor (with Brooke G. Schoepf) of HIV/AIDS: The Global Pandemic and Struggles for Control.

Calling in the Soul 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书

著者简介

Patricia V. Symonds. Department of Anthropology. Brown University


图书目录


Calling in the Soul pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载
想要找书就要到 小哈图书下载中心
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

用户评价

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

读后感

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

类似图书 点击查看全场最低价

Calling in the Soul pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024


分享链接









相关图书




本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度google,bing,sogou

友情链接

© 2024 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈图书下载中心 版权所有