Miao Miao may refer to:
* Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China
* Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages
* Miao (Unicode ...
") is a 1924 ethnographic book of the
Hmong people
The Hmong people ( RPA: ''Hmoob'', Nyiakeng Puachue: , Pahawh Hmong: , ) are a sub-ethnic group of the Miao people who originated from Central China. The modern Hmongs presently reside mainly in Southwest China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chon ...
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François Marie Savina
François Marie Savina (20 March 1876 – 23 July 1941Michaud, Jean. ''Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif'' (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures). Scarecrow Press, April 19, 2006. , 9780810865037. p209) w ...
, published by the Société des Missions-Etrangères de Paris.Savina, François-Marie 1924, ''Histoire des Miao.'' Hong Kong: Imprimerie de Ia Société des Missions-Etrangères, XXII-304 p. Republished in 1930; Lodwick, Kathleen L. ''Educating the Women of Hainan: the career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942''.
University Press of Kentucky
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(year unstated). 0813132967, 9780813132969. p 233 As of 2006, of Savina's writings, it is the most well-known and the most often cited.Michaud, Jean. ''Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif'' (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures).
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, April 19, 2006. , 9780810865037. p 209 The book includes Savina's theories and views of the Hmong. Savina argued that the Hmong had non-Asian origins because their legends had similarities to European stories.
Jean Michaud, author of ''Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif'', described the book as "highly original yet controversial work of applied ethnography and largely conjectural history".
Mark Pfeifer Mark Edward Pfeifer is the editor of the ''Hmong Studies Journal'', and the director of the Hmong Resource Center Library and the Museum at the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
From 2000 to 2006, he directed the Hmong Resource Center ...
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Hmong Cultural and Resource Center
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related ton ...
wrote that the book is "Not supported by any available empirical evidence, not given credence by contemporary scholars".Pfeifer, p. 3/20. A statement Michaud, in a biography of Savina included to his '' 'Incidental' Ethnographers. French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930,'' contributes to refine by showing the staggering extent of Savina's field experience and proficiency in several vernacular languages, including Hmong/Miao. Analyzing critically ''Histoire des Miao'' (pp. 186–203), Michaud shows that it is not so much Savina's ethnography that is lacking, but his critical sense as visible in unwarranted historical assumptions rendered partial by his Catholic faith.
References
* Michaud, Jean 2006. Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the South-East Asian Massif. Lanham (Maryland), Scarecrow Press, 355p.
* Pfeifer, Mark E. (
Hmong Cultural and Resource Center
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related ton ...
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* Michaud, Jean. 2007. 'Incidental' Ethnographers. French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880–1930. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
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