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Spirits without borders : Vietnamese spirit mediums in a transnational age
- Title
- Spirits without borders : Vietnamese spirit mediums in a transnational age / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien.
- Author
- Fjelstad, Karen.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hien, Nguyen Thi.
- Description
- x, 219 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The product of collaborative research by an American anthropologist and a Vietnamese folklorist, the work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again, the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries, and the current spread of the ritual to non-Vietnamese in the USA"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary anthropology of religion
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary anthropology of religion.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-3035
- ISBN
- 9780230114937 (hardback)
- 0230114938 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011002888
- OCLC
- YBP 2011002888
- Author
- Fjelstad, Karen.
- Title
- Spirits without borders : Vietnamese spirit mediums in a transnational age / Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Contemporary anthropology of religionContemporary anthropology of religion.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hien, Nguyen Thi.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-3035