PANA Institute for Leadership Development

Concurrent Session B3 / Saturday 2008.Aug.9 / 8:30 AM / Mudd 102

Linda Ho Peche, Arizona State University:  litto@mail.utexas.edu

This paper will examine how first and second generation Vietnamese Americans construct their worldviews through home-bound religious practices. In particular, I will center ancestral altar practices as important sites of reverence and as objects of material and expressive culture that reflect the ever-emergent values and tastes of Vietnamese American families.