Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fjelstad, Karen
• Hien, Nguyen Thi
• Karen Fjelstad
• Nguyen Thi Hien

Titel

Possessed by the Spirits: Mediumship in Contemporary Vietnamese Communities

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic Renovation period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.