"Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying,…
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation's fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spr…
An introduction to Hmong culture
"Presenting a holistic perspective of the Hmong way of life, this book touches on a spectrum of the Hmong culture, including traditions, customs, values, religion, arts, politics, and ceremonial rituals. The book features and explains certain Hmong words, phrases, and proverbs i…
"Explores lives of 13 Mong elders, oral tradition and cultural practices. Discusses Mong rituals, tribal customs, religious beliefs and educational experiences, lifestyle elders maintained in mountains of Laos. They describe childhood, communities, religious rituals and cultural…
"Explores lives of 13 Mong elders, oral tradition and cultural practices. Discusses Mong rituals, tribal customs, religious beliefs and educational experiences, lifestyle elders maintained in mountains of Laos. They describe childhood, communities, religious rituals and cultural…
