东南亚山地民族宗教研究的民族志典范——帕特丽夏·西蒙兹的《招魂》述评

A Model of Religious Ethnography in the Research Literature on Mountain Peoples in Southeast Asia:A Review of Calling in the Soul by Patricia Symonds

美国布朗大学人类学教授帕特丽夏·西蒙兹的《招魂》是一部研究海外苗族宗教的民族志佳作,作者从女性的视角出发,以更加敏锐的眼光和细腻的笔法来描叙苗族的世界观、女性在苗族社会的地位、出生死亡以及生死轮回的宗教思想,并对苗族的招魂曲进行了非常详尽的记录和分析,对于我们研究海内外苗族的宗教文化具有十分重要的典范意义。

Calling in the Soul： Gender and the Cycle of Live in a Hmong Village by Patricia V. Symonds, an American professor of anthropology at Brown University, is an outstanding ethnography on Hmong religious culture. As a great ethnographic work about Hmong religions, it focuses in detail on Hmong value, women＇s status, and conceptions of birth, death and reincarnation from a female＇ s perspective. It provides a very detailed record and analysis of the Hmong religious ritual of soul - calling. The book is thus a great reference for the study of Hmong religions in and out of China.