essay
Hmong
Refugees in America in the 1990s : a reference handbook • Westport, Conn. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 191-212
By: Dunnigan, Timothy J., Olney, Douglas P., McNall, Miles A., Spring, Marline A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief survey of immigrant Hmong ethnology from approximately 1975-1990s. The authors concentrated on Hmong economy, education, marriages practices, community politics, and the manner in which this population has adapted to life in the United States.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Birth statistics
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Settlement patterns
- Labor supply and employment
- Individual enterprise
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Household
- Conception
- Liberal arts education
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-1990s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Timothy Dunnigan, Douglas P. Olney, Miles A. McNall, and Marline A. Spring
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hmong Americans