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The Yao Nationality Name: Yao, Mien, Iu Mien Population: 2,600,000 (only in China) Localization: Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces in China. Also in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. |
Introductory Articles in Ethnic China
The Yao Nationality puzzle: The Yao are dispersed for all the provinces of South China and the neighboring countries.
Main
branches of the Yao Nationality:
The Yao are extended in a wide area of Southeast Asia,
characteristically lived in small, widely-scattered communities
History of the Yao: They consider that Panhu is their ancestor. A mythical figure placed in the center of their most important myths
The
drum of the clan among the Balou Yao:
their economic and productive unity is symbolized in the psychological
realm by the bronze drum.
Different marriages of the Yao: there are different kinds of marriage, though all they have some common characteristics.
Free marriage of the Chasan Yao: Interesting folk ways of this branch of the Yao.
Jinxiu
Yao Autonomous County: An overview of one of the counties where
they are concentrated.
Some
webs about the Yao Nationality: It is difficult to find interesting
webs about them.
Scholars
Researches available in the Web
Daniel
Bruhn.- The Phonetic Inventory of Iu-Mien. Iu-Mien
is a language of the Hmong-Mien (formerly Miao-Yao) family spoken by the
Iu-Mien people, the largest ethnic group within the Yao nationality.
Duncan
Campbell.- Kuang Lu's Customs of the South: Loyalty on the Borders of
Empire. Having injured a local magistrate in an accident, he fled
to live in Guangxi province amongst the Yao people.
Diep Dinh HOA.- Dynamics of Yao Genealogy (A Case Study of a Yen Stream Village) Hoa: Dynamics of Yao Genealogy- I try to add to our understanding of the relationship of the nature of the Yao community in the mountain-forest environment.
Hjorleifur Jonsson.- Mien through Sports and Culture: Mobilizing Minority Identity in Thailand. The recent importance of sports competitions and cultural displays among highland ethnic minorities in Thailand suggests a growing resonance of national forms of sociability and presentability.
Jacques Lemoine.- Social Fabric, Education and HIV Vulnerability Among the Lanten Yao of Muang Long, Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR. Lanten is a southern pronunciation of the standard Chinese word Landian that has become the usual ethnonym for the Mun group of Yao in China.
Sumei
Li, Chunlin Longa, Fengyan Liu, Sangwoo Lee, Qi Guoa, Rong Li, Yuheng
Liu.-
Herbs for medicinal baths among the traditional Yao communities of China.
Medicinal baths are an important traditional way to prevent
and cure common diseases among the traditional Yao communities of Jinping
County, Yunnan Province.
Tapp,
Nicholas C.T..- Reflections on filed work among the Yao. A personal
reflection on the way recent interest of anthropologists and other international
media, is affecting the lives of the Ba Pai Yao.
Books and references
A Yao folk-tale:
why dead fish do not close their eyes?
Free
books about the Yao
Basic
Bibliography of the Yao
Chinese Bibliography of the Yao
Photo Exhibitions
Ethnic
China photo exhibitions
Outside Photo exhibitions
Music
Yao
music
A guide to download their music
Films and Video
Documentary
Films about the Yao
Available dvds and vcds about the Yao
Image of the the Yao in the cinema
Art and Handicrafts
The
Yao in the art
Art Exhibitions
Travel
Travel
to Yao lands
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