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The sacrifice of the Nam-Giao
Amis du Vieux Hué, Bulletin • 2 (2) • Published In 1915 • Pages: 1-90 , plates
By: Cadière, Léopold Michel, Orband, R., Greene, Liliane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The sacrifice of the Nam Giao was formerly the greatest of Annamese ceremonies, at which time the Emperor sacrificed to Heaven as the representative of his people. The authors, a missionary and a civil servant, respectively, describe this ceremony as they witnessed it in 1915. The article consists of first-hand observations supplemented at great length by excerpts from documents and notices pertaining to the ceremony, quoted by permission of the mandarins of the Court of Annam. The authors present a detailed description of the sacrifice through its preliminary preparations, procession, ritual and invocations. The participants, layout, dances and various objects are also carefully described.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Chief executive
- Cult of the dead
- Sacred objects and places
- Prayers and sacrifices
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- Pauline Van Tho ; 1955: John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1915
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1915
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] L. Cadière and R. Orband
- Translation of: [Le sacrifice du Nam-Giao]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Liliane Greene
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese