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The Hmong of Australia : culture and disapora / edited by Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hmong (Asian people)--Australia--Social life and customs.
- Hmong (Asian people).
- Hmong (Asian people)--Cultural assimilation--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-74076-060-3
- OCLC:
- 66279310
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