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Studies on the religious ethnography of the Annamese: sorcery and divination
Impr. nationale • (11) • Published In 1897 • Pages: 275-410
By: Dumoutier, Gustave, Looney, Kathryn A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a substantive description of divinatory and magical practices, practitioners and cults, mostly of Taoist affiliation, in Tonkin. Included are materials on paraphernalia associated with these practices, including plates of magical diagrams, and studies of laws against sorcery and against corruption of the populace and the civil service by diviners and magicians. There are also examples of myths associated with the divinatory cults. Dumoutier, formerly Director of Education in Hanoi, has produced numerous monographs on the religious and general ethnography of Annam.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Literary texts
- Offenses against the person
- Offenses against the state
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Religious denominations
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoanatomy
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern (BAC BO) Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Gustave Dumoutier
- Translation of: [études d'ethnographie religieuse annamite : sorcellerie et divination]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Kathryn A. Looney
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese