The invisible neighbours
Cosmopolitan ghosts in a vietnamese village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4123849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heonik Kwon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0760-5668 • E-ISSN: 1777-5450 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/terrain.16614 |
| OpenAlex | W2809897370 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
I The residents of Cam Re, a seaside community south of Danang in central Vietnam, can tell many vivid stories about the village’s ghosts. Cam Re’s enterprising Taoist priest calls these ghosts his “invisible neighbours”. Although some of the stories about these invisible neighbours might come across as unsettling or even creepy, most typically sound much like any other mundane neighbourly gossip that the people in this small semi-fishing and semi-farming community exchange on a daily basis
Aesthetics · Art · Gossip · Humanities · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |