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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fjelstad, Karen, Hiền, Nguyễn Thị (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2011, 2011
Series:Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Subjects:
Religion And Sociology
Regional And Cultural Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnology
Social Anthropology
Spirituality
Sociology Of Religion
Cultural And Media Studies
Culture / Study And Teaching
Anthropology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:X, 219 p online resource
ISBN:9780230119703

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