Hmong and Yanomamo Cultures

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"The purpose of this paper is to present an ethnographic study of a particular culture, including a discussion of how the research was undertaken and by whom, and a description of the environment and ecology of the region as well as a review of the group's social behavior and values. Further, an analysis of the-culture's family/marriage and reproductive behavior will be put forth and then compared with the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazon.


For this study, the people of the "Golden Triangle" have been selected, specifically the Hmong culture. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Paul and Elaine Lewis undertook a study of the six tribes that live in the hill country of northern Thailand which borders on Loas and Burma. While the fertile valleys within this region have been populated for some eight centuries by the Lanna or Yuan people, also know as the "Northern Thai," "the..."

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