Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Possessed by the spirits : mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien, editors
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006

Copies

Description 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations
Series Southeast Asia Program series ; no. 23
Southeast Asia Program series ; no. 23.
Contents 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
Summary The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Kongress (Los Angeles.) swd
The Vietnam War Filmmusik gnd
Subject Mediums -- Vietnam
Spirit possession -- Vietnam
Vietnamese Americans -- Religion
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Mediums
Religion
Spirit possession
Vietnamese Americans -- Religion
Exorzismus
Spiritismus
Gemeenschap (sociologie)
Demonen.
Bezetenheid.
SUBJECT Vietnam -- Religion
Subject Vietnam
Vietnam.
Form Electronic book
Author Fjelstad, Karen
Nguyễn, Thị Hiền
ISBN 9781501719141
1501719149