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A gold mine of information for American social scientists. It is a must have. Choice A sensitive ... ethnography with real social application. A commendable study. Journal of Contemporary Asia This book corrects the male bias of much previous anthropological writing on the Hmong... Patricia Symonds shows how women are vital to the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation, which constitutes Hmong cosmology... This is excellent ethnography; it is clearly and beautifully written and well put together. Besides this, it provides an example of ethical methodology which will be extremely useful for teaching purposes and for introductions to the techniques of modern anthropology. Asian Folklore Studies

A gold mine of information for American social scientists. It is a 'must have.' Choice A sensitive... ethnography with real social application. A commendable study. Journal of Contemporary Asia This book corrects the male bias of much previous anthropological writing on the Hmong... Patricia Symonds shows how women are vital to the cycle of 'birth, death, and reincarnation,' which constitutes Hmong cosmology... This is excellent ethnography; it is clearly and beautifully written and well put together. Besides this, it provides an example of ethical methodology which will be extremely useful for teaching purposes and for introductions to the techniques of modern anthropology. Asian Folklore Studies

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Patricia V. Symonds is a visiting professor at Brown University. She is the coauthor (with Brooke G. Schoepf) of HIV/AIDS: The Global Pandemic and Struggles for Control.

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