Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in the Hmong Village Sexuality 400 years of history

400 years of history

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Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in the Hmong Village Sexuality 400 years of historyCalling 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