Vietnamese Supernaturalism
Views from the Southern Region
By Thien Do
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-30799-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10th July 2003
- Pages: 320
- Illustrations: 8 line drawings and 4 tables
About the Book
The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular religion in the country. The author shows an abiding interest in the 'subconscious life' at a grassroots level alongside rational formations of cosmological understanding which effect politics and economics on a national scale. By bringing together oral histories, reports and fiction writing alongside more conventional documented sources, this book reveals an area of history which has been largely neglected.
