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Title Vietnam : journeys of body, mind, and spirit / Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, editors.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press in association with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, [2003]
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Location Call No. Status
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  394.2694 VAN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  394.2695 HUY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  959.7 VIETNAM    Check Shelf
Description ix, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 color map ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280) and index.
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.
Subject Vietnam -- Social life and customs.
Added Author Nguŷẽn, Văn Huy, 1945-
Kendall, Laurel.
ISBN 0520238710 cloth alkaline paper
0520238729 paper alkaline paper
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