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Segmentary kinship in an urban society: the Hmong of St. Paul-Minneapolis

Anthropological quarterly • 55 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 126-134

By: Dunnigan, Timothy J..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This article presents a brief discussion of the segmenary social system (based on agnatic descent) of the refugee Laotian Hmong living in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area of Minnesota. Much of the material in this study deals with the structure of the lineage, sub-lineage, and clan and the position of the nuclear and/or extended family in this kinship system. The various sub-lineages described in the text '…also belong to pyramidal economic and political networks that complement kinship. These networks are linked to a national leadership that works through local mutual assistance associations' (p. 126-A).

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Comparative evidence

Mutual aid

Family relationships

Nuclear family

Extended families

Lineages

Clans

Private welfare agencies

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

North American Hmong

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2000

RegionThe area the document pertains to

North America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

article

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Ethnologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 1991

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1977-1981

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

not specified

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

NotesAdditional notes

[by] Timothy J. Dunnigan

Includes bibliographical references (p. 134)

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Hmong Americans