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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Ethnic Groups Research Database |
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Subject |
Hmong, Kinship, Chiangmai |
Author |
Prasit Leepreecha |
Title |
Kinship and Identity among Hmong in Thailand |
Document Type |
Thesis |
Original Language of Text |
English |
Ethnic Identity |
Hmong,
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Language and Linguistic Affiliations |
Hmong-Mien |
Location of
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Sirindhorn Anthropology Center Library |
Total Pages |
252 |
Year |
2001 |
Source |
Dissertation for Ph.D. of Anthropology Proposed to University of Washington |
Abstract |
Kinship identity in Thailand is set up with its government’s assimilation and integration policy and evangelism. Even though kinship identity has changed, it is the major factor in the Hmong’s maintenance of identity. Whereas the Hmong try to adapt themselves to mainstream Thai culture and to modern economic and social phenomenan, they also have applied these modern contexts to strengthen their kinship and ethnic identity. This study is a verification of the Hmong’s kinship and of inheriting their kinship through daily activities such as defining a new classification of kinship with in the government’s registered and educational systems, Thai culture, evangelism, both Christian and Buddhist and assimilating their own kinship into modern knowledge and science in order to strengthen their own identity. (from Abstract)
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