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Religious beliefs of the Miao and I tribes in An-shun Kweichow
Pien-chen Kung-lun [Frontier Affairs] • 1 (7,8) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 88-92 [HRAF ms: i, 14 ]
By: Chen, Guojun, Tsao, Lien-en.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The religious life of the Miao and Miao-acculturated Chung-chia of the An-shun ara is described. Attention is given to the following topics: Chinese influence on religion (including ancestral tablets); Catholic and Protestant missions; mediums, both male and female; the spirit theory of disease; magical and mental therapy; native deities; purification ceremonies; ancestor worship; medical killing of children (sic); divination; and sorcery.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Missions
- Prophets and ascetics
- Spirits and gods
- Cult of the dead
- Magical and mental therapy
- Sorcery
- Theory of disease
- Abortion and infanticide
- Development and maturation
- Luck and chance
- Ethos
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Miao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Arthur Fields
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- An-shun area, Kweichow Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Kuo-chun Ch'en ; translation by Lien-en Tsao
- Translation of: [Kweichow An-shun Miao-I ti tsung-chiao hsin Yang]
- The original Chinese text is not available in the eHRAF Collection
- Translated from the Chinese for the Human Relations Area Files by Lien-en Tsao
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Religion--Hmong (Asian people)