Upon Meeting the Ancestors: the Hmong Funeral Ritual in Asia and Australia

This paper will describe how the text affects its own telling at a specific moment in the death rites of the Hmong people, drawing chronologically on seven accounts dating from the 1890s to 1992 and ranging geographically from southern China to Thailand, Laos and Australia. To the Hmong -- tradition...

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Main Author: Catherine Falk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hmong Studies Journal 1996-12-01
Series:Hmong Studies Journal
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Online Access:https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/hsj-v1n1_falk.pdf