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
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