This page contains suggestions for where you might find answers to questions about Hmong People, History, and Culture.
HmongNet contributor and academic librarian Christina Smith writes:
Take a look at:
http://people.bu.edu/jchris/hmong.html
Christina Smith
Christina Smith also writes:
This week there were a number of messages from students doing research
papers on the Hmong and turning first to the Web and second to this
listserv for answers. There have been similar questions on this listserv
in the past.
I am writing primarily as an academic librarian and secondarily as the
compiler of two annotated bibliographies on the Hmong (published by the
University of Minnesota's Refugee Studies Center with no financial gain to
myself). My concern -- and I see this at my institution -- is that
students are turning to the Web, an uncataloged realm of materials for
which there is little quality control - before exploiting the vast
resources of their university and college libraries. Some of these
resources are on the Web, but the difference is that the information is
scholarly material neatly indexed and abstracted, and, student tuition is
being used to purchase these materials on the Web, or on CD-ROM.
These include:
There are numerous other catalogs (your university or college library
catalog and/or the consortium of libraries it may belong to), and indexes
to the fields of sociology, education, anthropology, psychology, law,
social science, art, music, medicine, religion, etc. I have searched these
and more looking for articles on the Hmong for my two bibliographies.
Many of the topics students or other researchers have mentioned on this
listserv have been the subject of books, book chapters, articles in
scholarly journals, articles in popular magazines or newspapers, theses
and dissertations. Because of copyright restrictions, these are not
freely available on the Web. You will only find them by looking into
catalogs, indexes, and abstracts at a library, or by consulting
bibliographies on the subject. Some of the catalogs, indexes and abstracts
may be available on your library's web page, or may be on stand-alone
terminals in the library on CD-ROM, or may be available in print only.
One way to start your research is to ask the reference librarians at your
library for help.
Christina Smith
In the many years the WWW Hmong Homepage has been in existance, I have
accumulated many questions and answers about Hmong people, culture, and
history. Unfortunately this information is not organized at all.
If you would be willing to go through an archive of questions and
answers and to generate a FAQ, please let me know.
Our first attempt at a Hmong FAQ
is available, but it still needs a great deal of work.
The HmongNet Mailing List is intended for postings of
Hmong-related information (announcements, job openings, requests
for information, etc.). It is not a discussion list. The volume
of postings to the list is quite low, perhaps two messages a week.
If you have a question or would like to post an announcement of some kind,
please email your message to
hmongnet@stolaf.edu.
If you would like to subscribe (and even better, help out with answering
a variety of Hmong-related questions), please let me know, and I
will add you to the HmongNet mailing list. You can email me at:
cdr@stolaf.edu.
Traditional Research Strategies
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:02:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "J. Christina Smith"
I put together a generic library research guide on doing research on the
Hmong. Where there is access to periodical indexes, such as the public
versions of ERIC (education) and Medline (Medicine), or databases such as
Uncover (tables of contents of 18,000 journals), I have included them, as
well as links to library catalogs and where to buy the various UMinn RSC
bibliographies (I get no royalties!). Otherwise, I have left out links to
Hmong web sites (you have a thorough list and the purpose of my site was
library research and library-web sources. I included, for example, the
link to the Britannica, as it is now available to anyone willing to put up
wth the advertising. Ditto the Information Please website.
If there are statistics or other authrotiative sites or volumes I should
include, I would like to know.
jchris@bu.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Christina Smith"
Anthropology/Sociology Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
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