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National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States

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Ethnography

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Abstract

Ethnography, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 136-154, March 2026.
By comparing changes in New Year’s celebrations among Hmong in two diasporic communities in Laos and the U.S., this paper examines the temporal and spatial aspects of cultural authenticity in the context of different nation-states and homelands. While the ...