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Hmong (Asian people) --- Hmong Americans --- Hmong Americans. --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology
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"One of Wisconsin's more recent immigrant groups, the Hmong were recruited by the CIA to fight communists in their home country of Laos during the Secret War of the 1960s and 1970s. When Saigon fell in 1975, the surviving Hmong had to flee for their lives, ending up in refugee camps in Thailand for many years before being relocated to the United States and other countries. Wisconsin is now home to the third largest Hmong population in the country, following California and Minnesota. Told with a mixture of scholarly research and personal experience of the author, who grew up in a Thai refugee camp, Hmong in Wisconsin shares the story of this perilous journey and the Hmong's experiences adapting to life in Wisconsin communities"--
Hmong (Asian people) --- Hmong Americans --- Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Ethnology --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Vue, Mai Zong.
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The Hmong first arrived in Australia in 1975 from war-torn Laos, settling in Australia as a small population of under 2,000. In Australia, as in other resettlement countries, the Hmong have been active in founding local and national associations, and there is alarm about the younger generation's loss of traditional cultural heritage. The Australian Hmong is a small community, but a dynamic and rapidly changing one. This collection of interdisciplinary papers-ranging across anthropology and linguistics, musicology, material culture, gender issues and sociology-gives the general reader an introduction to this fascinating and relatively unknown community as well as an understanding of the wide range of issues that research on the Hmong in Australia has covered to date. Both editors have extensive experience of Hmong populations in Asia and bring this experience to bear on a project that deals solely with the Hmong in an Australian context. The contributors to the book represent virtually all the serious researchers who have devoted their attentions to the Hmong in Australia.
History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Social aspects.
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"This coauthored ethnography bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by ethnic minority Hmong communities in Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province, both within each country and across the border. It contests the prevalence of country-based studies of such populations and promotes a transnational approach. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, this study is particularly valuable because it covers the reactions to state modernization projects (and the global market forces that have accompanied them) among the same ethnic group in two national jurisdictions which, despite their common Marxist-Leninist political systems and neoliberalizing economies, have pursued somewhat different policies with respect to "development" in minority communities along the border. The work contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border dynamics for ethnic minorities along the borderlands between China and its neighbors, and more broadly within mainland Southeast Asia"-
Borderlands --- Ethnology --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- S09/0412 --- S11/1215 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--China and South-East Asia (incl. Vietnamese war) --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949
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Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state.Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, village rituals, journalistic encounters, and tourism events are not just moments of cultural production but also performances of modernity through which others are made primitive. Schein finds that these moments frequently highlight internal differences among the Miao and demonstrates how not only minorities but more generally peasants and women offer a valuable key to understanding China as it renegotiates its place in the global order.
Hmong (Asian people) --- Ethnic relations --- Hmong (Peuple d'Asie) --- Relations interethniques --- Social life and customs. --- Political aspects. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect politique --- S11/1224 --- S06/0240 --- China: Social sciences--Miao --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnic politics --- Political aspects --- Social life and customs
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"Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980's in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social framework of the Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand), who have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries, is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of this structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death"--
Hmong Americans --- Patrilineal kinship --- Sexual division of labor --- Sex role --- Women, Hmong --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Agnatic descent --- Agnatic kinship --- Patrilineal descent --- Patriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Patriarchy --- Division of labor by sex --- Division of labor --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Hmong women --- Women, Hmong (Asian people) --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Thailand, Northern --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles
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This book explores Shimenkan—a Miao-inhabited area in Weining County, China—and its rural society from a comprehensive and long-term perspective, drawing on research conducted by the author in the course of ten years. Located in the northwest of Weining County in Guizhou Province, Shimenkan is a multiethnic area, where, e.g., the Hans, Miaos, Yis, Huis, and Buyis live. Until the early twentieth century, it was a small mountain village; the introduction of Christianity led to significant cultural and social changes in this area. Focusing on China in the twentieth century, the book addresses the traditional culture of the Miao people, the popularity of Christianity in early modern times, the management and control by the government, the socialist reform in the period of the People’s Republic of China, and the changes following the reform and opening-up in recent years. Covering a century’s worth of history, it discusses the major historical events in Northeastern Yunnan and Northwestern Guizhou around Shimenkan and analyzes local social structures, religions, ideologies, customs, and ethnic psychologies, making it a valuable addition to the study of regional social history. The book draws on archives, literature reviews, and field surveys and pursues a multi-disciplinary approach combining history, anthropology, and other disciplines. It offers a valuable resource for researchers in history, religion, and ethnology, as well as readers interested in the spread of Christianity in the Miao-inhabited areas of southwestern China.
Biotechnology. --- Religion and sociology. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Guizhou Sheng (China) --- Social life and customs. --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Kweichau (China) --- Kwei-chow (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng (China) --- Kweichow (China : Province) --- Kishū-shō (China) --- Kuei-chou (China : Province) --- Kweichow Province (China) --- Kweichow, China (Province) --- Gui Zhou (China : Province) --- Kuei-chou sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Guizhousheng (China) --- 贵州省 (China)
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"Traces the unique route through which Hmong in Vietnam discovered Christianity and appropriated it for themselves. Although a significant proportion of Vietnam's population has been Catholic since the days of French colonialism, the Hmong continued animistic spiritual practices shared across Hmong populations throughout Southeast Asia in the remote highland areas where most of them lived. After the Vietnam War, the Far East Broadcasting Company started an evangelical program in Hmong language targeting war refugees in Laos. In the mid-1980s this radio signal was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's Northern Highland, who related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation. Actual missionaries, mostly Laotian Hmong refugees in the US, eventually arrived to help them routinize their new Protestant faith. Today, this New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) is the claimed religion of roughly one third of a million Hmong in Vietnam. This ethngraphic study describes what happened when some Hmong decided to become Protestants while many of their kin kept their traditional religion, how the communist state views their religious activities, and the global dimensions of Hmong Protestant life. Hmong conversion serves as a lens for viewing the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates larger issues such as the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and post-socialist state-building, Cold War and post-Cold War antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and US-led evangelical expansionism"--
Ethnology --- Hmong (Asian people) --- Protestantism --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Christianity --- Church history --- Protestant churches --- Reformation --- Religion. --- Vietnam --- Betʻŭnam --- Biet Nam --- Bietnam --- Biyetnan --- Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Fītnām --- Fīyatnām --- Fiyitnām --- I︠U︡zhnyĭ Vʹetnam --- National Republic of Vietnam --- Nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam --- Petʻŭnam --- Republica Socialista de Vietnam --- Rèpublica socialista du Viêt Nam --- République socialiste du Vietnam --- RSV --- RSVN --- S.R.V. --- Satsyi︠a︡listychnai︠a︡ Rėspublika V'etnam --- Socialist Republic of Viet Nam --- Socialist Republic of Vietnam --- Sosialistiese Republiek Viëtnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheska republika Vietnam --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Vʹetnam --- SRV --- SRVN --- Vʹet-Nam --- Vʹetnam --- Viet-Nam --- Vijetnam --- Vītnām --- Vīyitnām --- Vjetnamio --- Vyetnam --- Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası --- Wietnam --- Yüeh-nan --- Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка В'етнам --- Социалистическа република Виетнам --- Виетнам --- В'етнам --- فيتنام --- Vietnam (Democratic Republic) --- Vietnam (Republic) --- Church history.
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