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THE HMONG OF CHINA This page intentionally left blank THE HMONG OF CHINA Context, Agency, and the Imaginary BY NICHOLAS TAPP Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tapp, Nicholas. The Hmong of China : context, agency, and the imaginary / by Nicholas T~PP. p. cm. Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-391-04187-8 1. Hmong (Asian people)-China-History. 2. Hmong (Asian people)--- Kinship. 3. Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs. I. Title: Context, agency, and the imaginary. 11. Title. ISBN 0-391-04187-8 O Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA For Jing This page intentionally left blank It is CCzanne's genius that when the over-all composition of the picture is seen globally, perspectival distortions are no longer visible in their own right but rather contribute, as they do in natural vision, to the impression of an emerging order, of an object in the act of appearing, organizing itself before our eyes. Merleau-Ponty; 'C6zanne's Doubt', Sense and Non-Sense, 1964 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Diagrams. Figures. Illustrations and Tables ........................ xi Acknowledgements ...................................................................... xv Note on Orthography ....................................................................x vii Foreword ....................................................................................... xix .............. Part One: Contextualising the Hmong 1 Part Two: Walnut Village ...................... 63 Preamble .......................................................................................6. 5 Chapter One : The Village ......................................................... 73 Chapter Two : Some Identity Problems ..................................... 99 Chapter Three : Han Endogamy ................................................ 116 Chapter Four : Shamanism as HmongMan Practice ................ 146 Chapter Five : The Primacy of Death Rituals .......................... 169 Chapter Six : Ancestral Worship ............................................ 190 Chapter Seven : Lineage Composition of the Yang Village ....... 201 Chapter Eight : The Family of Yang Junming .......................... 229 ........................................ Chapter Nine : Other Hmong Clans 252 Chapter Ten : The Wangwuzhai Weddings ............................ 268 Chapter Eleven : History and Conflict ......................................... 326 Part Three: Notions of Heroism and Agency ........ 355 Appendix I : Weixin Wedding Song ..................................... 433 Appendix I1 : How Rwg Ntxais Became a Tiger .................... 435 ........ Appendix 111 : The Orphan and the Emperor's Daughter 439 Appendix IV : The Wooden Fish and the Hanging Drum ....... 444 Appendix V : The Orphan Who Carried Coal ........................ 447 Appendix VI : How the Orphan Killed the Tiger ..................... 451 Appendix VII : Kinship Terms ................................................. 454 .............. Appendix VIII : A Structural Analysis of the Legends 463 Appendix IX : A Note on Context ........................................... 469 Appendix X : List of Households ........................................ 473
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