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Tonkinese beliefs regarding the protection of children
Institut Indochinois pour l'étude de l'Homme, Compte Rendu des Séances de l'Année 1938 • 1 • Published In 1938 • Pages: HRAF ms.: 14 [original:75-78 ]
By: Nguyen, Văn Khoan, Stewart, Elinor.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed account of the Tonkinese practice of 'selling' children to spirits, for their protection. The author, who is with the école Française d'Extreme-Orient, presented this paper at a meeting of the Institute Indochinois pour l'étude de l'Homme in 1938.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Life and death
- Cult of the dead
- Spirits and gods
- Avoidance and taboo
- Magicians and diviners
- Majority
- Social placement
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Thomas Maretzki ; 1952; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northerm Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Nguyen-Van-Khoan
- Translation of: [Croyances tonkinoises relatives à la protection de l'enfance]
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translated from the French for the HRAF files by Elinor Stewart ca. 1950
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese