HmongMien

1
Hmong/Mien

• Aka Miao, Meo/Yao
• relations with Han Chinese
• persecution, pressures to assimilate
• Migration into Southeast Asia
• S. China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand
• association with mountains
• Strategy of survival adaptive mobility
• Mode of production - mixed
• foraging, swidden agriculture
• trade in forest products, opium
• Issues of self-sufficiency, autonomy, mobility
• Social organization family, clan
• Religion spirits, ancestors, shamans