The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary

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This first ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp's extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan

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Specifications

• The Hmong Of China: Context, Agency, And The Imaginary available on August 22 2016 from Indigo for 92.5
  
• The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary available on February 02 2015 from Amazon for 24.66
  
• ISBN bar code 9780391041875 ξ2 registered August 22 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780391041875 ξ3 registered February 02 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780391041875 ξ1 registered August 21 2012
  
• Product category is Book
• Manufacturered by Brill Academic Pub
  

• Sku # 978039104187
  

• Product weight is 1.7 lbs.
  

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 historical and ethnographic construction of the identity of the Hmong by conscious contrast with, and in opposition to, a majority Han Chinese identity at the same time that large parts of Hmong culture are shared with the Chinese and may be the results of historical processes of adoption, absorption, mimesis, or emulation. Tapp examines the Hmong rituals of shamanism, ancestral respect, and death and provides details on livelihood, kinship, local organization, and intellectual culture. The book is enhanced with thorough accounts of ceremonies, rituals, and folktales, with translations of Hmong songs and stories. This publication has also been published in hardback (no longer available).

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References

^ Nicholas Tapp, (2012). 9780391041875, Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9780391041875 (revised Jan 2014)
^ The Hmong Of China: Context, Agency, And The Imaginary Indigo. ISBN 9780391041875 (revised Aug 2016)
^ Nicholas TappThe Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary, Brill Academic Pub. Amazon. ISBN 9780391041875 (revised Feb 2015)