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Possessed by the spirits : mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien, editors. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Southeast Asia program series ; 23.Publication details: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University.Description: 186 s. : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780877271710
  • 9780877271413
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF1242.P856.P677 2006
Available additional physical forms:
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.
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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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