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Calling In The Soul

by Patricia V. Symonds

2004 326 pages eng

"'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 …

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