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。 Patricia Symonds, a professor of anthropology at Brown University in the United States, is a masterpiece of ethnography that studies the religions of overseas Miao people. From a female perspective, the author describes the Miao people with a more keen eye and delicate brushwork World outlook, the status of women in the Miao society, the birth and death and the religious thought of life and death, and a very detailed record and analysis of the Miao folk songs are of great significance for us to study the religious culture of the Miao people at home and abroad.