Vietnam
Subtitle: journeys of body, mind, and spirit
By: Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, editors.
Contributors: Nguyẽ̂n, Vǎn Huy, 1945-; Kendall, Laurel.
Publisher: University of California Press in association with American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi; University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Vietnam -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a journey between two museums / Laurel Kendall and Nguyen Van Huy; title: One country, many journeys / Oscar Salemink; title: Vietnam's ethnic mosaic / Frank Proschan; title: Tet holidays: ancestral visits and spring journeys / Nguyen Van Huy; title: The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tet Trung Thu), yesterday and today / Nguyen Van Huy; title: Four ways to map a year's journey / Chu Van Khanh, Cam Trong, and A. Bao; title: Bat Trang: a pottery village and global node / Nguyen Anh Ngoc; title: Scenes from the Sapa market / Claire Burkert; title: The Yao initiation ceremony in the new market economy / Ly Hanh Son; title: Weddings and funerals in contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney; title: Other journeys of the dead / Luu Hung, Nguyen Trung Dung, Tran Thi Thu Thuy, Vi Van An, and Vo Thi Thuong; title: The village god's journey / Nguyen Van Huy, Nguyen Anh Ngoc, Nguyen Huy Hong, and Nguyen Trung Dung; title: The perilous journey of the then spirit army: a shamanic ritual of the Tay people / La Cong Y; title: Len Dong: spirits' journeys / Ngo Duc Thinh.