Book Description
Compilation of articles, book excerpts, papers, and other sources on Hmong culture.
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Hmong (Asian people)
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Compilation of articles, book excerpts, papers, and other sources on Hmong culture.
Author : Patrick Txhim Vang
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Hmong language
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Author : Kha Yang Xiong
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781734245035
The Hmong language is one of the most musical languages in the world. The language can be compared to a do re mi music scale. One word can have eight different meanings depending on the tone or pitch that is used. This is a bilingual English and Hmong book intended to teach beginning skills in reading Hmong. In addition, this book includes lessons about the Hmong people and their culture.
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0374533407
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author : Jay Xiong
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Hmong language
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
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Author : Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902728783X
Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details the most recent developments in this rapidly developing field with papers written by linguists primarily based in academic institutions in North America, although many conduct their fieldwork elsewhere. The articles in this volume — position papers and case studies — focus on some of the most critical issues in the field. These include (1) the nature of contributions to linguistic theory and method provided by documentary linguistics, including the content appropriate for documentation; (2) the impact and demands of technology in documentation; (3) matters of practice in collaborations among linguists and communities, and in the necessary training of students and community members to conduct documentation activities; and (4) the ethical issues involved in documentary linguistics.
Author : Dia Cha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1991-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313069549
Hmong culture has had an oral tradition for millennia, but the language itself did not even exist in written form until the 1950s. Compiled by famed author and storyteller Norma Livo and coauthor, Dia Cha, this is the first collection of authentic Hmong tales to be published commercially in the English language. Beginning with a description of Hmong history, culture, and folklore, the book includes 16 pages of full-color photographs of Hmong dress and needlework and 27 captivating tales divided into three sections: beginnings; how/why stories; and stories of love, magic, and fun. Appropriate for high school and adult readers, with selected stories appropriate for younger children, this collection is an important addition to multicultural units.
Author : Kathleen M. McInnis
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
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Author : Nicholas Tapp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004489444
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 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 paperback (no longer available).