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Bride Price A Hmong Wedding Story
Title
Bride Price [electronic resource] : A Hmong Wedding Story / Mai Neng Moua.
ISBN
1681340372
9781681340371
1681340364
9781681340364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Saint Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (230 pages )
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Summary
"A principled decision brings unexpected consequences for a Hmong American woman struggling to reconcile the two cultures--and to be a good daughter while breaking the rules. When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love and security from the groom's family. Mai Neng, who knows the pain this tradition has caused, says no. Her husband-to-be supports her choice. What happens next is devastating, and it raises questions about the very meaning of being Hmong in America."--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Contents
Prologue
Poob plig (soul-loss)
The trouble with me
Niam's bride price
Unanswered questions
Who owns what
Doing the right thing
Marriage talks
Damaged goods
To save a life
It takes a family
Not good for the family
Captured
Being Hmong and American
The wedding, take one
The wedding, take two
You may now begin your life
A knot between two clans
What is it worth?
When Niam and I last talked
Hu-plig (soul-calling)
Finding grandfather
Finding father
The truth
Finding family
Made whole
The garden full of weeds
The year without Niam
Risk
Saying nothing at all
A new beginning.
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