Spirits without Borders Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age
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 work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalis...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2011, 2011
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Series: | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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 work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries |
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Physical Description: | X, 219 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780230119703 |