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- catalog contributor b927058.
- catalog contributor b927059.
- catalog created "1976.".
- catalog date "1976".
- catalog date "1976.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1976.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [267]-270.".
- catalog description "Part One: The Miao people -- 1. The origins of the Miao people -- The meaning of the term 'Miao' -- Miao and Chinese classifications -- Miao language and its dialects -- The Miao as one people -- The origin of peoples in the Miao view -- The number of Miao in China -- The movement of the Miao beyond China -- The movement into Indo-China -- The Miao as mountain-dwellers -- 2. The Miao population in Thailand -- The movement of the Miao in Thailand -- 3. Social relationships and groupings -- Family relationships -- The family line -- The lineage -- The clan -- Marriage and bride-price -- Sex and clan membership -- The cohesion of the clan -- The social value of the clans -- The sub-clans -- Conclusion -- 4. The household and the village -- The household -- The ritual unity of the household -- The marriage process -- The age of marriage -- Marriages within and outside the village -- Polygyny -- The segmentation of households -- The village -- The clan composition of villages -- The importance of the village -- The village as a political unit -- The villages as a religious community -- Conclusion".
- catalog description "Part Three: Wider perspectives -- 10. Opium -- the mainstay of the economy -- Opium in China -- Opium in neighbouring countries -- Opium in Thailand -- Opium history in Meto minds -- The uses of opium -- Consumption within the village -- Exchange within the village -- The role of the Chines storekeeper -- The traders form outside -- Measurement scales for opium -- Conclusion -- 11. Dispersal -- Emigration and immigration -- Movement from the Meto villages -- Movement into the Meto area -- Relative clan strengths -- The pressure on Miao land -- The contemporary population -- The rising Miao population -- 12. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Part Two: Meto village and its agricultural economy -- 5. Meto village and its inhabitants -- The village population -- Clan distribution in the Meto-complex -- Sub-clan and lineage int he Meto-complex lineage relationships -- Household composition -- The social structure in its ecological setting -- 6. The utilization of the land -- The much greater importance of poppy than Padi -- The larger size of the land holdings -- The advantage of pioneering -- The value of child labour -- 7. The origin of the Meto settlement -- The criteria of land selection -- Altitude -- Soil type -- Plant indicators -- The acquisition of land -- The code of land tenure -- The distribution and transfer of land rights -- Land ownership in tribe and nation -- 8. Crops and their cultivation -- Padi -- Maize -- Poppy -- Processes of poppy cultivation -- Labour demands of opium cultivation -- Other crops -- Religion and agriculture -- 9. The productivity of the land -- Padi production -- Padi yield per rai and hectare -- Opium production -- Yields of opium per rai and hectare -- The value of the opium -- Income levels -- Incomes per head -- incomes of households -- Gross incomes from opium -- Wealth differences in the community -- Maize production -- Animals -- Conclusion".
- catalog extent "xviii, 274 p., [9] leaves of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Migrants of the mountains.".
- catalog identifier "0198231873 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Migrants of the mountains.".
- catalog issued "1976".
- catalog issued "1976.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press,".
- catalog relation "Migrants of the mountains.".
- catalog spatial "Thailand.".
- catalog subject "301.29/593".
- catalog subject "DS570.M5 G4".
- catalog subject "Hmong (Asian people) Thailand.".
- catalog subject "Hmong (Asian people)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part One: The Miao people -- 1. The origins of the Miao people -- The meaning of the term 'Miao' -- Miao and Chinese classifications -- Miao language and its dialects -- The Miao as one people -- The origin of peoples in the Miao view -- The number of Miao in China -- The movement of the Miao beyond China -- The movement into Indo-China -- The Miao as mountain-dwellers -- 2. The Miao population in Thailand -- The movement of the Miao in Thailand -- 3. Social relationships and groupings -- Family relationships -- The family line -- The lineage -- The clan -- Marriage and bride-price -- Sex and clan membership -- The cohesion of the clan -- The social value of the clans -- The sub-clans -- Conclusion -- 4. The household and the village -- The household -- The ritual unity of the household -- The marriage process -- The age of marriage -- Marriages within and outside the village -- Polygyny -- The segmentation of households -- The village -- The clan composition of villages -- The importance of the village -- The village as a political unit -- The villages as a religious community -- Conclusion".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part Three: Wider perspectives -- 10. Opium -- the mainstay of the economy -- Opium in China -- Opium in neighbouring countries -- Opium in Thailand -- Opium history in Meto minds -- The uses of opium -- Consumption within the village -- Exchange within the village -- The role of the Chines storekeeper -- The traders form outside -- Measurement scales for opium -- Conclusion -- 11. Dispersal -- Emigration and immigration -- Movement from the Meto villages -- Movement into the Meto area -- Relative clan strengths -- The pressure on Miao land -- The contemporary population -- The rising Miao population -- 12. Conclusion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part Two: Meto village and its agricultural economy -- 5. Meto village and its inhabitants -- The village population -- Clan distribution in the Meto-complex -- Sub-clan and lineage int he Meto-complex lineage relationships -- Household composition -- The social structure in its ecological setting -- 6. The utilization of the land -- The much greater importance of poppy than Padi -- The larger size of the land holdings -- The advantage of pioneering -- The value of child labour -- 7. The origin of the Meto settlement -- The criteria of land selection -- Altitude -- Soil type -- Plant indicators -- The acquisition of land -- The code of land tenure -- The distribution and transfer of land rights -- Land ownership in tribe and nation -- 8. Crops and their cultivation -- Padi -- Maize -- Poppy -- Processes of poppy cultivation -- Labour demands of opium cultivation -- Other crops -- Religion and agriculture -- 9. The productivity of the land -- Padi production -- Padi yield per rai and hectare -- Opium production -- Yields of opium per rai and hectare -- The value of the opium -- Income levels -- Incomes per head -- incomes of households -- Gross incomes from opium -- Wealth differences in the community -- Maize production -- Animals -- Conclusion".
- catalog title "Migrants of the mountains : the cultural ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand / by William Robert Geddes.".
- catalog type "text".