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Notes on the customs and popular superstitions of the Annamese
Excursions et Reconnaissances • 4 • Published In 1881 • Pages: 267-279
By: Landes, A., Huntington, Frank.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is one of a series of articles on Annamese customs which were published between 1880 and 1883. Landes was one-time mayor of Cholon, and the data for these articles evidently are the result of some years of experience and observation as a resident of Cochinchina. The present article is concerned with curing of illness through exorcism of spirits, and with the magicians and diviners who perform the cures. It also contains beliefs about the teeth, ears, and scalp, as well as an abstract of a folktale.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Magical and mental therapy
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magicians and diviners
- 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.
- 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
- ca. 1880
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1880
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern (NAM BO) Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] A. Landes
- Translation of: [Notes sur les moeurs et les superstitions populaires des Annamites]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Frank Huntington
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese