Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cylce of Life in a Hmong Village

by Patricia V. Symonds

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 about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295983264
• ISBN13: 9780295983264
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"