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Browsing by Subject "Clothing and dress, Hmong Americans"

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    Hmong American New Year rituals : Generational bonds through dress
    (Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing. ; International Textile and Apparel Association., 1995) Lynch, A.; Detzner, D.F.; Eicher, J.B.
    Within performed ritual, Hmong Americans use dress as a medium to express a vision of cultural life responsive to both their cultural past and their new American context. This article is a part of a larger research project focused on the role of dress in the formulation of Hmong American cultural life. This paper focuses on how dress is used within two different New Year performances to make sense of the position of the Hmong in America. Public and private Hmong American New Year rituals are arenas wherein dress is used to express the struggle for reconciliation between the older and younger generations, the old and new ways, and Hmong and American cultures. Separate and differently focused New Year celebrations formally acknowledge the valued roles of Hmong elders as links to the Hmong past and Hmong youth as links to an American future. Both celebrations incorporate a recognition of the core problem of reconciling Hmong and American cultures. Both use dress to give voice to the young and the old as they struggle for cultural definition in the United States. Key words: ritual, material culture, Hmong, refugees
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    Transmission and reconstruction of gender through dress:Hmong American New Year rituals.
    (Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing, 1996) Lynch, A.; Detzner, D.F.; Eicher, Joanne B.
    Abstract This is the second of two articles focused on the role of dress in the formulation of Hmong American cultural life. The first article focused on the performance of two versions of Hmong American New Year and how dress is used by Hmong Americans to make sense of their position between the cultural world of the past and contemporary American culture. This paper centers on the transmission and reconstruction of female gender roles in the American context as expressed through women’s headdress worn to the Hmong American New Year celebration. Both uses of dress arose out of attempts to reconcile the cultural life of the past with their lives in the United States; both are expressed visually through the dressed and evaluated body within the context of the Hmong New Year celebration. Key Words: ritual, material culture, dress, Hmong