Research Catalog

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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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.

Subject

• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• RELIGION / Spirituality
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• Anthropology of religion > Vietnam
• Rites and ceremonies > Vietnam
• Mediums > Vietnam
• Spirit possession > Vietnam
• Goddess religion > Vietnam
• Vietnam > Religious life and customs
• Vietnam > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Border crossings : setting the theoretical stage -- Spirited research : studying lên đồng in Vietnam and California -- Đạo Mẫu spirits, temples, and rituals -- Spiritual callings : becoming a medium in the contemporary world -- "Lên đồnging" in Silicon Valley -- The Vietnam-Cali connection -- "You have to respect the local spirits".

ISBN

• 9780230114937 (hardback)
• 0230114938 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011002888

OCLC

694832944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library