Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
by
Patricia V. Symonds, Patricia V. Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“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...