Highly demanded for many universities' Hmong courses, "The Hmong: A Guide to Traditional Life" is now available again, ONLY at Hmong ABC. In this book, Dr. Robert Cooper and his research team, among the world's leading authorities on the Hmong, have recorded traditional life as it was and as it remains in the more remote locations, offering readers a privileged glimpse into a unique, endangered lifestyle.

"This definitive work introduces traditional Hmong village life to westerners, non-Hmong, and to thousands of young Hmong who have grown up in the west without personally experiencing a traditional Hmong way of life. Fourteen chapters provide insight into Hmong history, the establishment of house and household, lineage and clan, village life, courtship and marriage customs, economy, music codes, crafts, belief in the otherworld and communication with it, propitiating the spirits, shamanism, and death rituals. This work includes fine photographs and illustrations." --University of Minnesota, Southeast Asian Refugee Studies.

"A highly readable, straightforward presentation of Hmong culture. One could only wish that a similar text existed for other highland ethnic groups." --Grant Evans, Far Eastern Economic Review

"I can't begin to say how accessible and informative I find this book. Finally, a book on the Hmong that is neither stuffy nor condescending." Colin Cotterill, author of the five Coroner Siri mysteries set in the Lao PDR