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Reclaiming Diasporic Identity

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Reclaiming Diasporic Identity February 27, 2024 Sangmi Lee

This chapter examines Hmong shamanism as a transnational cultural continuity in the diaspora. Although shamanistic rituals are often seen as locally bound, their power can be deterritorialized and transnationally projected across the diaspora through extensive kinship and economic networks as well as beliefs about shamanistic births and the mobile nature of souls. Nonetheless, Hmong shamanism...