The Hmong of Australia :  culture and disapora / 
edited by Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee. 
 - Canberra, ACT :  Pandanus Books,  (c)2004. 
 - 1 online resource (217 pages) :  illustrations (some color) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Preliminaries; Contents; Culture and Settlement The Present Situation of the Hmong in Australia; Living Locally Dreaming Globally Transnational CulturalImaginings and Practices in the Hmong Diaspora; Hmong Diaspora in Australia; Globalised Threads Costumes of the Hmong Community in North Queensland; The Private and Public Lives of the Hmong Qeej and Miao Lusheng; Being a Woman The Social Construction of Menstruation Among Hmong Women in Australia; Process and Goal in White Hmong; References; Notes on Contributors; Index. 
<br/><br/> A collection of interdisciplinary papers, rangingacross anthropology and linguistics, musicology, material culture, gender issues and sociology, gives the general reader an introduction to this fascinating and relatively unknown community. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781740760607 9781740760416 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs.--Australia<br/>Hmong (Asian people)--Cultural assimilation--Australia.<br/>Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs.--Australia<br/>Hmong (Asian people)--Cultural assimilation--Australia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DU122  / .H566 2004