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. .
<br/><br/>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 -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780877271710 9780877271413 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mediums--Vietnam.<br/>Spirit possession--Vietnam.<br/>Vietnamese Americans--Religion.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1242.P856.P677 2006