Bride Price : A Hmong Wedding Story /

"A principled decision brings unexpected consequences for a Hmong American woman struggling to reconcile the two cultures--and to be a good daughter while breaking the rules. When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moua, Mai Neng, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Saint Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yang, Blong > Family.
Moua, Mai Neng, > 1974-
Mothers and daughters.
Married people.
Kidneys > Transplantation.
Hmong Americans > Social life and customs.
Hmong American women.
Families.
Children of immigrants.
Bride price.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
Reins > Greffe > Biographies.
Couples maries > Minnesota > Saint Paul > Biographies.
Enfants d'immigrants > Minnesota > Biographies.
Meres et filles > Minnesota > Biographies.
Americains d'origine miao > Minnesota > Moeurs et coutumes.
Americaines d'origine miao > Minnesota > Biographies.
Prix de la fiancee.
Americains d'origine miao > Rites et ceremonies du mariage.
Kidneys > Transplantation > Biography.
Married people > Minnesota > Saint Paul > Biography.
Children of immigrants > Minnesota > Biography.
Mothers and daughters > Minnesota > Biography.
Hmong Americans > Minnesota > Social life and customs.
Hmong American women > Minnesota > Biography.
Hmong Americans > Marriage customs and rites.
Minnesota > Saint Paul.
Minnesota.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Poob plig (soul-loss)
  • The trouble with me
  • Niam's bride price
  • Unanswered questions
  • Who owns what
  • Doing the right thing
  • Marriage talks
  • Damaged goods
  • To save a life
  • It takes a family
  • Not good for the family
  • Captured
  • Being Hmong and American
  • The wedding, take one
  • The wedding, take two
  • You may now begin your life
  • A knot between two clans
  • What is it worth?
  • When Niam and I last talked
  • Hu-plig (soul-calling)
  • Finding grandfather
  • Finding father
  • The truth
  • Finding family
  • Made whole
  • The garden full of weeds
  • The year without Niam
  • Risk
  • Saying nothing at all
  • A new beginning.

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