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La fabuleuse aventure du peuple de l'opium

Auteure: Jean Lartéguy , Yang Dao

Nombre de pages: 396

L’histoire des Hmong, des Méo, s’étend sur cinquante siècles si on s’en tient aux Annales chinoises. Elle est celle d’un peuple pas comme les autres, qui, ignorant l’écriture, conserva pourtant intactes ses coutumes, ses rites magiques. Il entra dans l’Histoire les armes à la main ; il combat toujours dans les montagnes du Laos. Peuple des chamans, maîtres des esprits, des vierges guerrières, peuple de l’opium, fou de liberté, il n’a jamais connu de maîtres ni de frontières. Ces libres cavaliers de la steppe sibérienne, qui eurent leur Age d’or sur les bords du fleuve Jaune, sont devenus des nomades qui, au Tonkin, au Laos, en Birmanie, en Thaïlande et dans tout le sud de la Chine, vivent sur les sommets de l’autre côté des nuages. Aujourd’hui, ils sont victimes d’un holocauste semblable à celui des Juifs. On les détruit aux gaz asphyxiants quand le napalm ne suffit pas. Jean Lartéguy rencontra les Méo en 1950, en haute région d’Indochine ; il les retrouva en 1978 aux pieds de l’Aigoual, dans sa Lozère natale. Ainsi lui vint l’idée de ce livre qu’il écrivit en collaboration avec l’un de ces Hmong qu’il avait connu dans un...

Pharmacodépendance et pharmacodélinquance

Auteure: Raymond H.-a. Carter

Nombre de pages: 438

Présente les principaux produits utilisés par les usagers dans les domaines illicites et licites de la pharmacodépendance pour définir le concept de pharmacodélinquance et ses conséquences dans notre société. « Copyright Electre »

Terreur et séduction

Auteure: Jérémy Rubenstein

Nombre de pages: 434

Les techniques issues de la tradition militaire de " contre-insurrection " et d'action psychologique sont aujourd'hui largement banalisées, y compris dans le management d'entreprise, dans nombre de polices du monde, voire dans des groupes mafieux. Mais on ignore souvent ce qu'elles doivent à la doctrine française de la " guerre révolutionnaire " (DGR). D'où l'intérêt de cet ouvrage, qui retrace son histoire méconnue. Sa genèse remonte aux armées coloniales du XIXe siècle – principalement française et britannique – qui ont constitué un savoir-faire répressif permettant l'émergence de la DGR au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle a été formalisée par des officiers français engagés dans la guerre d'Indochine, devenant hégémonique dans l'état-major durant celle d'Algérie. Elle se veut une réponse au mouvement de décolonisation, conçue comme une " guerre totale " impliquant l'ensemble de la société. Et elle vise son contrôle intégral par la propagande et la manipulation, la " conquête des cœurs et des esprits ". Mais aussi par la terreur, associée à la séduction propagandiste : torture, exécutions extrajudiciaires, disparitions...

Entre les plis du monde : Chroniques sur les hauteurs de l'Asie

Auteure: Charles-antoine Schwerer , Cécile Schwerer

Nombre de pages: 303

Treize mois d’aventure parmi les peuples de Haute-Asie, avec des livres. Ce voyage est celui d’une exploration du « vieux monde ». Le monde des tribus bigarrées, des ethnies tatouées, des moines solitaires. Dans les montagnes d’Asie, ce sont les récits d’explorateurs, les archives de missionnaires et les travaux d’ethnologues qui leur font choisir leurs explorations. Puis, une fois dans les parages, ils rejoignent à pieds ces peuples. Et tentent de comprendre ce qui les anime, les soutient ou les menace. Entre les plis du monde est une aventure autant intellectuelle que physique, et le récit d'une expédition qui a conquis le cœur des jurés. Cécile et Charles-Antoine Schwererse sont en théorie rencontrés sur les bancs de leur école de commerce, à HEC. En réalité, ce fut plutôt une passion commune des voyages eurasiatiques qui les rassembla. Cécile Schwerer monte des projets entrepreneuriaux dans le handicap. Charles-Antoine Schwerer est économiste, de profession, et apprenti anthropologue, de passion. Patrice Franceschi est aventurier et écrivain, prix Goncourt de la nouvelle 2015 pour son ouvrage Première personne du singulier. Il est également...

Quand l'opium finançait la colonisation en Indochine

Auteure: Chantal Descours-gatin

Nombre de pages: 316

Met en évidence le point de vue de l'administration coloniale française pour laquelle l'opium avait un intérêt avant tout économique.

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom

Auteure: Mai Na M. Lee

Nombre de pages: 431

Authoritative and original, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom is among the first works of its kind, exploring the influence that French colonialism and Hmong leadership had on the Hmong people's political and social aspirations.

Tragic Mountains

Auteure: Jane Hamilton-merritt

Nombre de pages: 632

Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.

Resource Scarcity and the Hmong Response

Auteure: Robert G. Cooper

Nombre de pages: 344

Emerging Voices

Auteure: Huping Ling

Nombre de pages: 280

While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. This book presents discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans.

Regional Minorities and Development in Asia

Auteure: Huhua Cao , Elizabeth Morrell

Nombre de pages: 194

Asia has undergone strong economic growth since the Second World War. However, it also experiences growing economic and regional disparities brought about by this unprecedented development. This economic growth cannot be considered sustainable without taking into consideration the social development of minority populations, as well as the fundamentals of minority rights. The chapters in this book work from the premise that an environment that favours the emergence of various conditions necessary for the development of minority populations will contribute towards further economic development and prosperity, as well as the social cohesion of the entire country. Bringing together perspectives from Economics, Development and Area Studies, Geography, Anthropology, and Sociology, the contributors provide local narratives that shed light on some of the different needs, situations, and methods of problem solving. This diverse approach gives a nuanced perspective on social, economic and political inequality, and the ways in which people are constructing varied responses to the challenges of modernization. Through the comparison of the characteristics and realities of minority region...

Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief

Auteure: Donald P. Irish , Kathleen F. Lundquist , Vivian J. Nelsen

Nombre de pages: 249

This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying. These professionals must perceive the needs of people with cultural patterns which are different from the "standard and dominant" patterns in the United States and Canada. Accordingly, the book includes illustrative episodes and in-depth presentations of selected "ethnic patterns".; Each of the "ethnic chapters" is written by an author who shares the cultural traditions the chapter describes. Other chapters examine multicultural issues and provide the means for personal reflection on death and dying. There are also two bibliographic sections, one general and one geared towards children. The text is divided into three sections - Cross-Cultural and Personal perspectives, Dying, Death, and Grief Among Selected Ethnic Communities, and Reflections and Conclusions.; The book is aimed at those in the fields of clinical psychology, grief therapy, sociology, nursing, social and health care work.

Yellow Rainmakers

Auteure: Grant Evans

Nombre de pages: 252

In 1979 a new and horrible image of technological barbarism was born. 'Yellow Rain', claimed the US State Department, was devastating the mountain tribes of Laos as the Pathet Lao government battled with the remnants of the 'Secret Army', which the CIA had raised from the Hmong tribe during the Indochinese war. Lethal trichothecene toxins, never before developed for chemical warfare, were identified as the mystery weapon:, the Soviet Union as the culprit. No physical evidence capable of withstanding scientific scrutiny has ever been produced in support of the us allegations. Grant Evans has carefully sifted the US testimony and compared it with the results of his own first-hand research among Hmong refugees in Thailand and in Laos itself. He has examined the quality of the medical and physical evidence used to prove that chemical warfare is occurring. Evans also explores the recent history and culture of the Hmong tribe, a primitive people battered and traumatized by war since the early 1960s. The manipulation of their panic and fear, he argues, lies at the centre of the whole controversy. The analysis is set against the political development of Laos since 1975. Grant Evans allows ...

A History of Laos

Auteure: Martin Stuart-fox

Nombre de pages: 278

This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party authoritarianism. The book highlights Laos' complex and shifting political alliances. The struggle for independence from France was followed by a struggle for unity and neutrality in the face of persistent foreign intervention, as the country was drawn into the war in Vietnam. Only with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops has Laos been able to reassert its neutral foreign policy and develop a market economy. This book is an impressive political, social, cultural and economic history. It will be essential for anyone wanting to understand Laos as it joins ASEAN, faces great economic challenges and struggles to maintain its cultural identity.

Sleep Paralysis

Auteure: Shelley R Adler

Nombre de pages: 181

Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States. Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.

Minority Rules

Auteure: Louisa Schein

Nombre de pages: 388

Gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.

The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans

Auteure: Arthur J. Dommen

Nombre de pages: 1191

"Dommen's book promises to be the definitive political history of Indochina during the Franco-American era." -- William M. Leary, E. Merton Coulter Professor of History, University of Georgia This magisterial study by Arthur J. Dommen sets the Indochina wars 'French and American' in perspective as no book that has come before. He summarizes the history of the peninsula from the Vietnamese War of Independence from China in 930-39 through the first French military actions in 1858, when the struggle of the peoples of Indochina with Western powers began. Dommen details the crucial episodes in the colonization of Indochina by the French and the indigenous reaction to it. The struggle for national sovereignty reached an acute state at the end of World War II, when independent governments rapidly assumed power in Vietnam and Cambodia. When the French returned, the struggle became one of open warfare, with Nationalists and Communists gripped in a contest for ascendancy in Vietnam, while the rulers of Cambodia and Laos sought to obtain independence by negotiation. The withdrawal of the French after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu brought the Indochinese face-to-face, whether as friends or as ...

Calling in the Soul

Auteure: Patricia V. Symonds

Nombre de pages: 387

“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death and considers the gender relationships evident in these practices. The Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand) have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries. Their social framework is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of that structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death. Calling in the Soul will be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists. Replaces ISBN 9780295800424

A History of the Hmong

Auteure: Thomas S. Vang

Nombre de pages: 518

This is the first completely up-to-date Hmong history book ever written by a member of the Hmong people. It describes the earliest civilizations of the Hmong and Miao in China, and why some of the Hmong migrated into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century, particularly to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; and how the Hmong of Laos were involved with the Lao civil war, especially the secret war from 1962 to 1975 that caused almost a hundred thousand Hmong to flee to Thailand and Western countries as political refugees after the Communists takeover. This book includes the forcible repatriation of the Lao-Hmong asylum seekers at Nam Khao refugee camp in Thailand back to Laos in late 2009 and the arrest and discharge of former General Vang Pao by the U.S. authorities. "[It] is full of fascinating materials [and] a wonderful book. Congratulations," commented by Dr Nicholas C. T. Tapp, Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.

Mother of Writing

Auteure: William A. Smalley , Chia Koua Vang , Gnia Yee Yang

Nombre de pages: 241

In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Shong Lue claimed to have been descended of God and given the mission of delivering the first true Hmong alphabet. Many believed him to be the Hmong people's long-awaited messiah, and his thousands of followers knew him as "Mother (Source) of Writing." An anthropological linguist who has worked among the Hmong, William A. Smalley joins Shong Lue's chief disciple, Chia Koua Vang, and one of his associates, to tell the fascinating story of how the previously unschooled farmer developed his remarkable writing system through four stages of increasing sophistication. The uniqueness of Shong Lue's achievement is highlighted by a comparison of Shong Lue's writing system to other known Hmong systems and to the history of writing as a whole. In addition to a nontechnical linguistic analysis of the script and a survey of its current use, Mother of Writing provides an intriguing cultural account of Shong Lue's life. The book traces the twenty-year-long struggle to disseminate the script after Shong Lue's death, first by handwriting, then by...

Claiming Place

Auteure: Chia Youyee Vang , Faith Nibbs , Ma Vang

Nombre de pages: 457

Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination both in the United States and in Southeast Asia. Claiming Place expands knowledge about the Hmong lived reality while contributing to broader conversations on sexuality, diaspora, and agency. While these essays center on Hmong experiences, activism, and popular representations, they also underscore the complex gender dynamics between women and men and address the wider concerns of gendered status of the Hmong in historical and contemporary contexts, including deeply embedded notions around issues of masculinity. Organized to highlight themes of history, memory, war, migration, sexuality, selfhood, and belonging, this book moves beyond a critique of Hmong patriarchy to argue that Hmong women have been and continue to be active agents not only in challenging oppressive societal practices within hierarchies of power but also ...

Cultural Conflict & Adaptation

Auteure: Henry T. Trueba , Lila Jacobs , Elizabeth Kirton

Nombre de pages: 184

First published in 1990. The Hmong people, with a total population of about 5 million, have a long history of statelessness and migration. During the last century, groups of Hmong moved from southern China into Indochina and, as war refugees, about 90,000 have come to America in the last thirteen years. This book examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California. The education process for these children is an example of cultural conflict and adjustment patterns which may be found in many other populations in the world. The implications for educators of immigrant populations, who face and resolve cultural conflict as they learn to respect and appreciate their culture, is far-reaching and an important contribution in a highly mobile world.

Histoire de la guerre d'Indochine

Auteure: Yves Gras

Nombre de pages: 680

Voyage en Asie

Nombre de pages: 70

Le figaro magazine

Nombre de pages: 794

Bulletin de la Société toulousaine d'études classiques

Nombre de pages: 98

Les naufragés du soleil

Auteure: Jean Lartéguy

Nombre de pages: 348

Le roi noir

Auteure: Jean Lartéguy

Nombre de pages: 528

Dieu, l'or et le sang

Auteure: Jean Lartéguy

Nombre de pages: 260

Le baron céleste

Auteure: Jean Lartéguy

Nombre de pages: 348

Regards sur les Hmong de Guyane française

Auteure: Marie-odile Géraud

Nombre de pages: 366

En 1977, une centaine de familles hmong furent installées au coeur de la forêt guyananaise par l'administration française. Ce livre présente cette singulière communauté, ses aspirations, ses craintes pour l'avenir, ses conflits internes et ses contradictions, qui entourent notamment l'idée de tradition. Existe-t-il une tradition hmong, une culture authentique.

Miroir de l'histoire

Nombre de pages: 816

Acta geographica

Nombre de pages: 328

Les Réfugiés originaires de l'Asie du sud-est

Auteure: Centre De Documentation Et De Recherches Sur L'asie Du Sud-est Et Le Monde Insulindien

Nombre de pages: 260

Le Point

Nombre de pages: 1860

Ethnic Minorities, Drug Use & Harm in the Highlands of Northern Vietnam

Auteure: Ami-jacques Rapin

Nombre de pages: 280

Bibliographie de la France, Biblio

Nombre de pages: 1038

Section called "Annonces" consists of publishers' ads.

Mondes et cultures

Nombre de pages: 908

Pasáson Bandá Phao

Auteure: Miroslav Nožina

Nombre de pages: 372

Nebylo nic zadáno

The Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang

Auteure: Martin Stuart-fox

Nombre de pages: 264

A history of the great Lao kingdom that flourished in the middle Mekong region between the 14th and 18th centuries. Chapters deal with prehistory of Laos, the Tai-Lao migrations, Vietnamese and Burmese invasions and the arrival of the first Europeans, the breakup of the Lao kingdom, the significance of the Lao-Siamese war of 1827-28, and the French annexation of Lao territories in 1893.