Possessed by the spirits: mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities
The mother goddess religion : its history, pantheon and practices / Ngo Duc Thinh -- Tran Hung Dao and the mother goddess religion / Pham Quynh Phuong -- "Hot-tempered" women and "effeminate" men : the performance of music and gender in Vietnamese mediumship / Barley Norton -- Sp...
| Zusammenfassung: | The mother goddess religion : its history, pantheon and practices / Ngo Duc Thinh -- Tran Hung Dao and the mother goddess religion / Pham Quynh Phuong -- "Hot-tempered" women and "effeminate" men : the performance of music and gender in Vietnamese mediumship / Barley Norton -- Spirit performance and the ritual construction of personal identity in modern Vietnam / Kirsten W. Endres -- "We have len dong too" : transnational aspects of spirit possession / Karen Fjelstad -- Gifts from the spirits : spirit possession and personal transformation among Silicon Valley spirit mediums / Karen Fjelstad and Lisa Maiffret -- "A bit of a spirit favor is equal to a load of mundane gifts" : votive paper offerings of len dong rituals in post-renovation Vietnam / Nguyen Thi Hien -- "Children of the spirits, followers of a master" : spirit mediums in post-renovation Vietnam / Viveca Larsson and Kirsten W. Endres -- Do the four palaces inhabit an East Asian landscape? / Laurel Kendall |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record |
| ISBN: | 1501719149 |