The Hmong of Australia : culture and disapora

The Hmong of Australia : culture and disapora / edited by Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee.

A collection of interdisciplinary papers, rangingacross anthropology and linguistics, musicology, material culture, gender issues and sociology, gives the general reader an introduction to this fascinating and relatively unknown community.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tapp, Nicholas, 1952-, Lee, G. Y. (Gary Y.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books, ©2004.
Subjects:
Hmong (Asian people) > Australia > Social life and customs.
Hmong (Asian people) > Cultural assimilation > Australia.
HISTORY.
Hmong (Asian people) > Cultural assimilation
Hmong (Asian people) > Social life and customs
Kulturanthropologie
Australia
Australien
Miao.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Culture and Settlement The Present Situation of the Hmong in Australia; Living Locally Dreaming Globally Transnational CulturalImaginings and Practices in the Hmong Diaspora; Hmong Diaspora in Australia; Globalised Threads Costumes of the Hmong Community in North Queensland; The Private and Public Lives of the Hmong Qeej and Miao Lusheng; Being a Woman The Social Construction of Menstruation Among Hmong Women in Australia; Process and Goal in White Hmong; References; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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