Tapp, Nicholas. International Workshop on the Hmong/Miao in Asia (1st : 1998 : Aix-en-Provence (France))
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Papers from the International Workshop on the Hmong/Miao in Asia Aix-en-Provence, France in 1998. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hmong refugees from Laos : the challenge of social change / Yang Dao. From culture circle to cultural ecology : the Hmong/Miao as reflected in German and Austrian anthropology / Christian Postert -- Contribution to the study of Hmong (Miao) migrations and history / Christian Culas and Jean Michaud -- Innovation and tradition in rituals and cosmology : Hmong messianism and shamanism in Southeast Asia / Christian Culas -- Pa-hng and the classification of the Hmong-Mien languages / Barbara Niederer -- Vocabulary of environment and subsistence in the Hmong-Mien Protolanguage / Martha Ratliff -- Note on the ethno-semantics of proverb usage in Mong Njua (Green Hmong) / Thomas Amis Lyman -- Problems in the interpretation of Hmong surnames / Kao-Ly Yang -- A Hmao in northeast Yunnan and northwest Guizhou Provinces : perspectives on the encounter with the A Hmao from some Western Protestant missionaries / R. Alison Lewis -- Miao identity in western Guizhou : China during the Republican period / Cheung Siu-Woo -- Hmong/Miao transnationality : identity beyond culture / Louisa Schein -- Hmong and the land question in Vietnam : national policy and local concepts of the environment / Claes Corlin -- Hmong and forest management in northern Vietnam's mountainous areas / Vuong Duy Quang -- Ntoo xeeb : cultural redefinition for forest conservation among the Hmong in Thailand / Prasit Leepreecha -- Following Hmong cultural pathways for the prevention of HIV/AIDS : notes from the field / Patricia V. Symonds -- Hmong marriage patterns in Thailand in relation to social change / Peter Kunstadter -- Rape : perceptions and processes of Hmong customary law / Robert Cooper -- Transnational adaptation : an overview of the Hmong of Laos / Gar Yia Lee -- Hmong and development in the Lao People's Democratic Republic / Jan Ovesen -- Epilogue, Hmong refugees from Laos : the challenge of social change / Yang Dao.
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