The Hmong of Australia
Culture and Diaspora
Edited by: Nicholas Tapp, Gary Yia LeePlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
The Hmong are among Australia’s newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain, and others live in Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Hmong refugees are now also settled in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and French Guyana. Already the beauty and richness of traditional Hmong culture, in particular their shamanism and embroidered costume, has attracted the attention of the Australian public, but little is known about these people, their background or the struggles they have faced to adjust to a new life in Australia.This interdisciplinary collection of articles deals with their music and textiles, gender and language, their social adaptation and their global diaspora. The book aims to bring knowledge of the Hmong to a wider public and contribute to the understanding of these people.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781921666940
- ISBN (online):
- 9781921666957
- Publication date:
- Nov 2010
- Note:
- First published 2004 by Pandanus Books
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/HA.11.2010
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Sociology
- Countries:
- Australia; East Asia: China; Europe: France, Germany; North America: Canada, United States; Southeast Asia: Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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- Preliminary (PDF, 71KB)
- Introduction (PDF, 67KB) – Nicholas Tapp
- Culture and Settlement: The Present Situation of the Hmong in Australia (PDF, 95KB) – Gary Lee doi
- Living Locally, Dreaming Globally: Transnational Cultural Imaginings and Practices in the Hmong Diaspora (PDF, 276KB) – Roberta Julian doi
- Hmong Diaspora in Australia (PDF, 135KB) – Nicholas Tapp doi
- Globalised Threads: Costumes of the Hmong Community in North Queensland (PDF, 806KB) – Maria Wronska-Friend doi
- The Private and Public Lives of the Hmong Qeej and Miao Lusheng (PDF, 196KB) – Catherine Falk doi
- Being a Woman: The Social Construction of Menstruation Among Hmong Women in Australia (PDF, 98KB) – Pranee Rice Liamputtong doi
- Process and Goal in White Hmong (PDF, 83KB) – Nerida Jarkey doi
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