Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Title
Hmong of Australia.
International Standard Book Number
1740760417
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hmong (Asian people)-- Australia-- Social life and customs.
Hmong (Asian people)-- Cultural assimilation-- Australia.