Book
Annamese religions
F. -H. Schneider • Hanoi • Published In 1907 • Pages:
By: Dumoutier, Gustave, Thompson.
Abstract
This is a series of short essays on the numerous religious cults of the Annamese. It includes considerable material on local and national shrines and ritual celebrations and on the gods and the deified heroes, real and mythical, who have been so enshrined and made the objects of cult worship. Consequently, there is a good deal of interesting data on the deification of culture heroes, notably by royal fiat. The inclusion of data on culture heroes has led to the inclusion of the traditional history of relations with China. China is seen as the erstwhile political suzerain and invader, fighting against which many culture heroes are created. China is also treated as the source from which many other culture heroes brought aspects of culture and civilization to Vietnam. In this respect excerpts from Chinese texts and legends have been marked for the Vietnamese File as though they were integral parts of Vietnamese elite culture. Dumoutier was a noted authority on the religious ethnography of Vietnam and this is a work published after his death. It appeared originally in the REVUE INDOCHINOISE for 1900, the present edition being a re-print therefrom.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Government Official
- Document Rating
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- Analyst
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955: John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- No date
- Coverage Date
- 1 A.D.-1890 A.D.
- Coverage Place
- Vietnam
- Notes
- [by] Gustave Dumoutier
- Translation of: [Les cultes annamites]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Thompson
- LCSH
- Vietnamese