Book
Annamese religions
F. -H. Schneider • Hanoi • Published In 1907 • Pages:
By: Dumoutier, Gustave, Thompson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Tillage
- Preventive medicine
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Religious denominations
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955: John Beierle ; 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
- 1 A.D.-1890 A.D.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Gustave Dumoutier
- Translation of: [Les cultes annamites]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Thompson
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese