BYU ScholarsArchive

Title

Collision or Cohesion? Hmong Shamanism and Ontological Holism in France

Authors

Madison Harmer, Brigham Young University - Provo
Telisha Pantelakis, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow

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Keywords

Hmong, Western medicine, traditional healing

Abstract

The Hmong are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia who’ve lived as forced migrants and political refugees for the past several hundred years. Current U.S. literature has attributed Hmong difficulties adapting to Western culture, specifically health care from shamanic practices. They claim that traditional and western healing practices are incompatible. (Franzen-Castle & Smith 2013, Fadiman 1997). While living in a small town in central France, we conducted an ethnographic study observing Hmong refugees and their interactions and beliefs between traditional healing practices and Western medicine to explore this claim.

Description

The Annual Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Research Conference showcases some of the best student research from the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences. The mentored learning program encourages undergraduate students to participate in hands-on and practical research under the direction of a faculty member. Students create these posters as an aide in presenting the results of their research to the public, faculty, and their peers.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Harmer, Madison and Pantelakis, Telisha, "Collision or Cohesion? Hmong Shamanism and Ontological Holism in France" (2017). FHSS Mentored Research Conference. 328.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/fhssconference_studentpub/328

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

2017-05-11

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Anthropology

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