Hmong/Miao in Asia

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1: Issues of History, Language and Identity

History

1. The State of Hmong Studies (An Essay on Bibliography)--Nicholas Tapp

2. From Culture Circle to Cultural Ecology: The Hmong/Miao as reflected in German and Austrian Anthropology--Christian Postert

3. A Contribution to the Study of Hmong (Miao) Migrations and History--Christian Culas and Jean Michaud

4. Innovation and Tradition in Rituals and Cosmology: Hmong Messianism and Shamanism in Southeast Asia--Christian Culas

Language

5. Pa-hng and the Classification of the Hmong-Mien Languages--Barbara Niederer

6. Vocabulary of Environment and Subsistence in the Hmong-Mien Protolanguage--Martha Rafliff

7. A Note on the Ethno-Semantics of Proverb Usage in Mong Njua (Green Hmong)--Thomas Amis Lyman

8. Problems in the Interpretation of Hmong Surnames--Kao-ly Yang

Identity

9. The A Hmao in Northest Yunnan and Northwest Guizhou Provinces: Perspectives on the Encounter with the A Hmao from some Western Protestant Missionaries--R. Alison Lewis

10. Miao Identity in Western Guizhou: China during the Republican Period--Cheung Siu-Woo

11. Hmong/Miao Transnationality: Identity beyond Culture--Louisa Schein

Part 2: Current Issues

Vietnam

12. Hmong and the Land Question in Vietnam: National Policy and Local Concepts of the Environment--Claes Corlin

13. The Hmong and Forest Management in Northern Vietnam's Mountainous Areas--Vuong Duy Quang

Thailand

14. Ntoo Xeeb: Cultural Redefinition for Forest Conservation among the Hmong in Thailand--Prasit Leepreecha

15. Following Hmong Cultural Pathways for the Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Notes from the Field--Patricia V. Symonds

16. Hmong Marriage Patterns in Thailand in Relation to Social Change--Peter Kunstadter

17. Rape: Perceptions and Processes of Hmong Customary Law--Robert Cooper

Laos

18. Transnational Adaptation: An Overview of the Hmong of Laos--Gar Yia Lee

19. The Hmong and Development in the Lao People's Democratic Republic--Jan Ovesen

Epilogue

20. Hmong Refugees from Laos: The Challenge of Social Change--Yang Dao

Index

Notes on Contributors