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Culture and Customs of the Hmong

Gary Yia Lee Nicholas Tapp

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English
Greenwood Press
16 September 2010
This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.

Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs.

The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances.
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Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780313345265
ISBN 10:   0313345260
Series:   Culture and Customs of Asia
Pages:   274
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Gary Yia Lee, PhD, is a Hmong academic from Laos who has lived in Australia since before the 1975 collapse of Laos. He received his PhD in social anthropology from Sydney University in 1981 and has published and researched extensively on the Hmong for 30 years. Dr. Lee has taught at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and most recently at Concordia University in St. Paul, MN. His published works include The Hmong/Miao in Asia and The Hmong of Australia: Culture and Diaspora. Many of his publications can be found on his homepage, www.garyyialee.com. Nicholas Tapp, PhD, is professor in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where he runs the Thai-Yunnan project. Dr. Tapp has extensively researched and published on the Hmong for 30 years. He received a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, in 1985, and since then has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Edinburgh University. His published works include Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand and The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary, which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award in 2002.

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