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Vietnam : journeys of body, mind, and spirit
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Vietnam : journeys of body, mind, and spirit

Author: Văn Huy Nguyễn; Laurel Kendall
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press in association with American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, ©2003.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Văn Huy Nguyễn; Laurel Kendall
ISBN: 0520238710 9780520238718 0520238729 9780520238725
OCLC Number: 50192301
Description: ix, 294 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 col. map ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction: a journey between two museums / Laurel Kendall and Nguyen Van Huy --
One country, many journeys / Oscar Salemink --
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic / Frank Proschan --
Tet holidays: ancestral visits and spring journeys / Nguyen Van Huy --
The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tet Trung Thu), yesterday and today / Nguyen Van Huy --
Four ways to map a year's journey / Chu Van Khanh, Cam Trong, and A. Bao --
Bat Trang: a pottery village and global node / Nguyen Anh Ngoc --
Scenes from the Sapa market / Claire Burkert --
The Yao initiation ceremony in the new market economy / Ly Hanh Son --
Weddings and funerals in contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney --
Other journeys of the dead / Luu Hung, Nguyen Trung Dung, Tran Thi Thu Thuy, Vi Van An, and Vo Thi Thuong --
The village god's journey / Nguyen Van Huy, Nguyen Anh Ngoc, Nguyen Huy Hong, and Nguyen Trung Dung --
The perilous journey of the then spirit army: a shamanic ritual of the Tay people / La Cong Y --
Len Dong: spirits' journeys / Ngo Duc Thinh.
Responsibility: Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, editors.
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