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Essay on the Dinh and the cult of the guardian spirit in the villages of Tonkin
école Française d'Extreme-Orient, Bulletin • 30 • Published In 1930 • Pages: 107-139 , plates
By: Nguyen, Văn Khoan, Temple, Charles R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, who is a native of Vietnam and assistant at l'école Française d'Extreme-Orient, has given a detailed description of the dinh as well as an account of the ceremonies which are carried on there. In this connection he discusses the place of the dinh and its ceremonies in the religious system of the Tonkinese villages. The article also contains seven plates and a description of the the religious personnel.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Classes
- Local officials
- Spirits and gods
- Theological systems
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Congregations
- 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
- 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
- Ada Farber ; 1954 ; 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] Nguyen-Van-Khoan
- Translation of: [Essai sur le Dinh et le culte du génie tutélarie des villages au Tonkin]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Charles R. Temple
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese