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Manners and customs of the people of Annam

Annales de l'éxtreme-Orient4Published In 1882 • Pages: 369-377

By: Tran-Nuong Han, Stiernotte, Alfred.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Tran-Nuong Hanh, a native of Vietnam, gives a full description of the six principal ritual ceremonies performed in Viet Nam at different age levels and at puberty, marriage, death, and on the securing of first employment as well as for the cult of the ancestors. He concludes by emphasizing the filial piety which must be the sacred motive of all actions of one's life.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Age stratification
Gender status
Ethics
Mode of marriage
Cult of the dead
Sacred objects and places
Prayers and sacrifices
Ethnosociology
Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
Majority
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.
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
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)
central (TRUNG BO) Vietnam
NotesAdditional notes
[by] Tran-Nuong Han
Translation of: [Moeurs & coutumes annamites]
Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Alfred Stiernotte
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Vietnamese