Research Catalog

Title

Ambiguity of identity : the Mieu in North Vietnam / Nguyen Van Thang.

Author

Nguyẽ̂n, Văn Thá̆ng.

Publication

[Chiang Ma, Thailand] : Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development : Silkworm Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Mahāwitthayālai Chīang Mai. Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.

Description

ix, 206 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

Summary

"How have the Na Mieu (Mieu people) of North Vietnam adapted to a world in which other peoples - the Tay and the Kinh - are dominant, and how has the modern state increasingly reshaped the conditions in which they live? This book examines the pressures on the Mieu as they adjust to this non-Mien world, by considering the relations between the Mieu and the Tay, the Kinh, and the central state. It identifies the extent of the Mien's adaptation in light of the policies of integration and modernization imposed upon them by the modern state. It also considers the changes undergone by the Mieu as they reconstruct their identity and present themselves as a distinct people. Finally, by placing the transformation of Mieu identity in the broader context of multiethnic nation-states, it discusses the general nature and processes of change in ethnic identity." --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Hmong (Asian people) > Vietnam
• Hmong (Asian people) > Vietnam > Ethnic identity
• Hmong (Asian people)
• Hmong (Asian people) > Ethnic identity
• Indigenes Volk
• Ethnische Identität
• Miao
• Minderheit
• Kulturelle Identität
• Hmong (folk) > Vietnam
• Minoriteter > Vietnam
• Etnicitet > Vietnam
• Vietnam
• Nordvietnam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-206).

Contents

The Mieu/Hmong in Vietnam and Studies of Mieu/Hmong Ethnic Identity -- The Mieu/Hmong in the ethnic structure of Vietnam -- Problems with previous studies of Hmong or Mieu identity -- Vietnamese ethnology and ethnicity -- Western approaches to ethnicity -- The Extent of Mieu Assimilation Into the Tay and the Kinh -- The mixture in origin -- A change in ethnonym -- From a monolingual to a trilingual people -- The loss of a distinctive material culture -- The mixture of non-material culture -- Relations Between the Mieu, the Tay, the Kinh, and the State -- Hierarchical ethnic stratification between the Mieu, the Tay, and the Kinh -- Mieu relations with the Vietnamese court, the Kinh, and the Tay(1802-1885) -- Mieu relations with the French colonial state, the Kinh, and the Tay (1885-1954) -- Mieu relations with the nation-state of independent Vietnam, the Kinh, and the Tay (1954-present) -- The Reshaped Identity of the Mieu -- The imposed ethnicity -- On a common ethnonym and the classification of the Hmong and Mieu languages -- The reshaped identity of the Mieu: An ambiguous ethnic identity -- The role of culture in ethnic identity -- The State's Reshaping of Ethnic Identities, and the Indigenous Peoples' Response -- Conclusion: The ways in which indigenous peoples respond to imposed ethnicities -- App. A. Tones, consonants, and vowels of the Mieu language -- App. B. Comparison of vocabulary -- App. C. Ethnic groups in Vietnam in 1919 -- App. D. Minority ethnic groups in Vietnam in 1959 -- App. E. Ethnic groups of Vietnam in 1974 -- App. F. Ethnic groups of Vietnam in 1979.

ISBN

• 9789749511275
• 9749511271

LCCN

2007441157

OCLC

• ocn154686184
• 154686184
• SCSB-1452078

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library