TY  - BOOK
AU  - Symonds,Patricia V.
TI  - Calling in the soul: gender and the cycle of life in a Hmong village 
AV  - DS570 .C355 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Hmong (Asian people)
KW  - Thailand, Northern
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Women, Hmong
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Sexual division of labor
KW  - Patrilineal kinship
KW  - Hmong Americans
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : conducting research in a Hmong village --; Hmong cosmology : a balance of opposites --; Mothers, daughters, and wives --; Birth : the journey to the land of light --; Death : the journey to the land of darkness --; Reflections on power, gender, and the cycle of life --; Epilogue : HIV/AIDS and the Hmong in Thailand; 2; b
N2  - "Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social framework of the Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand), who have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries, is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of this structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death"--
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