TY - BOOK AU - Fjelstad,Karen AU - Hien,Nguyen Thi TI - Possessed by the spirits: mediumship in contemporary Vietnamese communities T2 - Southeast Asia program series SN - 9780877271710 AV - BF1242.P856.P677 2006 PY - 0000///New York CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University. KW - Mediums KW - Vietnam KW - Spirit possession KW - Vietnamese Americans KW - Religion N1 - 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; 2; b ER -