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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Tapp, Nicholas.
Lee, G. Y. (Gary Y.)
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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