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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has light rubbing and shelf wear, otherwise it is very attractive. Tight spine, unmarked paages.

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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Hmong of Australia: Culture and Diaspora. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. pp. 159.

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: New. pp. 159.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Presents a comprehensive collection of research on Hmong culture and life in Asia.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.VG CLEAN SOFTWRAPS ORIGINAL.72 PAGES-TEXT AND PHOTOS.21/G Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

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Condition: New. pp. 159.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback with laminated boards,size 8vo,238 pages.Illustrated with b/w plates.Boards shows some light edge wear & sunning + light marking.Light browning to the fore edges & prelims otherwise contents clean & complete.Most items will incur extra charges for international shipping.These can be substantial for orders outside of Europe.Please consider this before buying.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs.The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances.…

Laminated Boards. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Impression. South East Asian Social Science Monographs, xiv, 238pp, black & white photos, some marks to fore edge and to the margins of some of the pages towards the rear, top of front hinge starting to crack, netting visible at title page and pp236/7 but binding is firm, laminated boards with slight wear. Size: 10 x 6.25 Inches. Social Science.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, hardcover, xxi, 538pp., 43 b/w plates. First edition. VG: clean boards, lightly rubbed; mild dust soiling to the edges; very sound binding; clean and unmarked text and plates. Extra postage may be asked (3).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. A clean and tight soft cover which is slightly edgeworn and has slightly bumped corners. No marks or inscriptions. A very small shop sticker is on the inside cover.

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Black and white photographic illustrations, 159pp, index, references, notes on contributors, appendix, spine ever so slightly sunned, a touch of rubbing on corners, very good paperback copy. "Tracks and Traces: Thailand and the Work of Andrew Turton traces the threads that tie together an understanding of Thailand as a dynamic and rapidly changing society, through an examination of the work of one major scholar of the country, Andrew Turton. Turton's anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society. In this collection, ten leading specialists on Thailand from a variety of disciplines critically consider aspects of Turton's work in relation to the changing nature of different aspects of Thai society. The book tracks the links between past and present scholarship, examines the contextuality of scholarship in its times, and sheds light on the current situation in Thailand." Publisher's description.…

Condition: New. In.

2. impression. Gr.-8°. X, 238 Pages. Original Hardcover-Volume. Good Condition with only small Signs of Usage at the Cover. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No Owner's Note! ('South-East Asian Social Science Monographs').

Soft Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: n/a. Second edition, revised. This study explores how the Hmong have managed to maintain a strong sense of ethnic integrity despite centuries of oppression by more powerful majority populations. The Hmong people have emigrated from China to Southeast Asia, and from there, since the ending of the Vietnam wars, to France, America, and other Western countries. The author examines the current dilemmas of the Hmong in an opium-growing village in Northern Thailand: whether to continue cultivating opium or not, whether to support the Thai state or engage in armed insurrection, whether to continue with their traditional shamanic curing rituals or adopt new faiths such as Christianity or Buddhism. He shows how these dilemmas are expressed by a wider contradiction between 'being Hmong' or 'being Chinese'; the second part of the book then moves back through the long history of the Hmong in China, showing how their many messianic rebellions against centralized authority were motivated by a desire for literacy and the possession of a form of writing for their own language. Legends about the geomantic system which the Hmong share with the Chinese for the siting of ancestors' graves differentiate Hmong from Chinese ethnicity. In the final part of the book, the current situation of Hmong refugees in the West is examined. 350 pp., 8 pp. illus. in col. 3 pp., maps. Size: 21 x 15 cm.…

72p, 5x8 inch paperback with photo-illustrated cover; in very good condition. Reporting on the history of opium trade and its impacts to the Hmong.