Possessed by the spirits : mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities /
Possessed by the spirits : mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities / [print]
Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien, editors.
- Ithaca, Cornell University. New York :
- 186 s. : illustrations.
- Southeast Asia program series ; 23 .
- Southeast Asia program series ; 23. .
The mother goddess religion : its history, pantheon and practices / 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. Ngo Duc Thinh --
9780877271710 9780877271413
Mediums--Vietnam.
Spirit possession--Vietnam.
Vietnamese Americans--Religion.
BF1242.P856.P677 2006
The mother goddess religion : its history, pantheon and practices / 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. Ngo Duc Thinh --
9780877271710 9780877271413
Mediums--Vietnam.
Spirit possession--Vietnam.
Vietnamese Americans--Religion.
BF1242.P856.P677 2006