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Sarah Turner - Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands - 9780295741734 - V9780295741734
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Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

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Description for Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 34 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little.

The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295741734
SKU
V9780295741734
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-36

About Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner is professor of geography at McGill University. She is the author of Indonesia’s Small Entrepreneurs: Trading on the Margins and editor of Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia. Christine Bonnin is lecturer in geography at University College Dublin. Jean Michaud is professor of social anthropology at Université Laval. He is the author of The A to Z of the People of the Southeast Asian Massif and coeditor of Moving Mountains: Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos.

Reviews for Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
"Recommended."
Choice
"A powerful ethnography of economics that reaches deep into local and regional economies and histories, tracing the pathways of key products made and traded."
Magnus Fiskesjo
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"[This] important contribution . . . provides new insights into borderlands and everyday politics of ethnic minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif."
Alexander Horstmann
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
"Provides a vivid description of a myriad of activities in the everyday lives of Hmong on the fringes as they make their living in the sectors of agriculture, livestock transactions, locally distilled alcohol, cardamom, and the textile trade."
Nguyen Thi Le
Southeast Asian Studies
"Written in an extremely clear and engaging style, this book has a lot to offer to all those interested in borderlands studies and in the lives of those who inhabit the Southeast Asian Massif."
Stéphane Gros
New Books Asia

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