Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in the Hmong Village Sexuality an understanding of which still

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Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences

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Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in the Hmong Village Sexuality an understanding of which stillCalling 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 about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social