Monday, March 2, 2009

New Assignment for Marriage Topic

New Assignment to be passed on March 9 or 10 (1 or 2 or any number of pages)

Marriage among the Hmong: Read Gary Yia Lee's article entitled "Household and Marriage in a Thai Highland Society" at

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~yeulee/Culture/hmong%20marriage.html

a. Who are the Hmong? Where do they live?
b. What are their ideal post-marital residence rules? How does this influence settlement pattern?
c. What is the courtship process among the Hmong?
d. With marriage among the Hmong, are gifts transferred from the bride's family to the groom's or from the groom's family to the bride's?
e. What are the characteristics of an ideal groom among the Hmong?
f. What is the relationship between kinship and potential marriage partners in Hmong society?

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