The Hmong of China : : context, agency, and the imaginary / / by Nicholas Tapp.
This first ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp's extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan. Basing his analysis on the concepts of context and agency, Tapp discusses the "paradoxical ambivalence at the heart of Hmong culture." A paradox arises in the hi...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia ; 51 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Diagrams, Figures, Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Orthography
- Foreword
- Part One: Contextualising the Hmong
- Part Two: Walnut Village
- Preamble
- Chapter One : The Village
- Chapter Two : Some Identity Problems
- Chapter Three : Han Endogamy
- Chapter Four : Shamanism as Hmong/Han Practice
- Chapter Five : The Primacy of Death Rituals
- Chapter Six : Ancestral Worship
- Chapter Seven : Lineage Composition of the Yang Village
- Chapter Eight : The Family of Yang Junming
- Chapter Nine : Other Hmong Clans
- Chapter Ten : The Wangwuzhai Weddings
- Chapter Eleven : History and Conflict
- Part Three: Notions of Heroism and Agency
- Appendix I : Weixin Wedding Song
- Appendix II : How Rwg Ntxais Became a Tiger
- Appendix III : The Orphan and the Emperor's Daughter
- Appendix IV : The Wooden Fish and the Hanging Drum
- Appendix V : The Orphan Who Carried Coal
- Appendix VI : How the Orphan Killed the Tiger
- Appendix VII : Kinship Terms
- Appendix VIII : A Structural Analysis of the Legends
- Appendix IX : A Note on Context
- Appendix X : List of Households
- Bibliography
- Index
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations.