Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
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Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
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Nanzan University
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Asian ethnology, 2023-03, Vol.82 (1), p.99-120
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English
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Nanzan University
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Vietnamese popular religion is inclusive and syncretistic and can incorporate a number of external elements into its expanding pantheon. This article explores the image of Victor Hugo in a mural in Caodai temples, the Saigon flag on ancestral altars, and a Santa Claus doll on “Way of the Mother Goddesses” (Đạo Mẫu) home temple altars. Each of these...
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Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
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TN_cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A758800182
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A758800182
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1882-6865
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