Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

by KarenFjelstad (Author), NguyenThiHien (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $118.89

  Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries.