Nicholas Tapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 75538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Tapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tapp |
| SIGNATURE | TAPP N |
| AFFILIATIONS | East China Normal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Multicultural China
Of Grasshoppers, Caterpillars, and Beans
This paper considers Hmong messianism in Asia and beyond from a historical perspective, arguing that its thematic repetition of themes and ideas requires a new understanding of subjectivity at the intersections of the psychological with the social and political. Hmong messianic movements have adopted a variety of forms ranging from the more indigenous to the more explicitly Christian. While the attempt is not to seek a particularist ‘ethnographic…
The art of symbolic resistance
This is a remarkable and authoritative volume, dealing with the problematics of Uyghur identity in Xinjiang, particularly in terms of their relations with the Han Chinese. The book is almost mathem
Diversity in Diaspora
Hmong refugees from war-torn Laos in the USA, of whom there are now nearly 300,000, contradict images of 'docile, acquiescent' Asian Americans' (ix) associated with more dominant groups like Chines
M iao migrants to S hanghai
This paper reports on a recent research project into rural–urban labour migrants in S hanghai, C hina, who are members of ethnic minorities, inquiring into the role of ethnicity in national labour migration. It introduces some of the main features of the ethnic nationalities ( minzu ) in C hina and considers some of the literature on rural–urban migration in C hina which may be considered as relevant to ethnicity. The case of a M iao minority fam…
Religious Issues in China's Rural Development
This paper considers Chinese religion in relation to the changing nature of rural society and modernisation. Rural/urban distinctions are questioned, while the realities of religious differences between them are affirmed. Development is related to modernisation and multiple sources of Chinese modernity are considered. Religion is examined in terms of its tendencies towards diversification and capacity to embody visions of an alternative moral ord…
Shamanism and Violence
Nicholas TappThe Australian National University and East China Normal University© 2014, Nicholas TappNotes[1] There is at least one reader on this wider topic, of current urgent interest: the Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence (Juergensmeyer and Kitts Citation2011).[2] Strathern and Stewart (Citation2012a, Citation2012b
Coming to terms with the nation
Coming to terms with the nation: ethnic classification in modern China, edited by Thomas Mullaney, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 2011, 232pp., £19.95 (paperback), I
Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia
Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains: Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos Jean Michaud & Tim Forsyth (Eds) Vancouver, Toronto, UBC Press, 2011 230 pp., index, ISBN: 978-077-4818377, hardcove
Tai Lands and Thailand
Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia Andrew Walker (Ed.) Singapore and Copenhagen, Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with NUS Press and NIAS Press, 2009
Written cultures in mainland Southeast Asia – Edited by Masao Kashinaga
Culture and Customs of the Hmong
This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives. Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifest…
The Hmong of Australia
The Hmong are among Australia’s newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain, and others live in Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Hmong refugees are now also settled in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and French Guyana. Already the beauty and richness of traditional Hmong cul…
Yunnan
Possessed by the spirits
Romanticism in China?–Its Implications for Minority Images and Aspirations
Translocal China
La perruche et le maître hmong. Réponse à Jacques Lemoine
Tapp Nicholas. La perruche et le maitre hmong. Reponse a Jacques Lemoine. In: Aseanie 10, 2002. pp. 197-204
Cultural Accommodations in Southwest China
The Hmong of southern China define themselves as an unmarked category in relation to two significant others: the Chinese and the Yi. Using data from fieldwork in Sichuan, the A. examines some problems of Hmong ethnography, inquiring why color terms were used for some groups of Hmong, as well as subdivisions of them. He attempts to consider the Hmong not only in terms of their relationships with the Han, but also with the Yi. However, the weight o…
In Defence of the Archaic
This paper argues for a new understanding of the Chinese ethnic classification project of the 1950s, which is too easily read as merely an exercise in colonising representations. Claiming that there may yet be cultural spaces uncolonised by 'modernity', the paper argues that recent research, through over-emphasising the transformation of local identities by the state and concentrating on minority elite views, may have missed something of the fact…
Note on Orthography
The Wangwuzhai Weddings
Han Endogamy
The Family of Yang Junming (Lineage Y3C)
In Defence of the Archaic
This paper argues for a new understanding of the Chinese ethnic classification project of the 1950s, which is too easily read as merely an exercise in colonising representations. Claiming that there may yet be cultural spaces uncolonised by 'modernity', the paper argues that recent research, through over-emphasising the transformation of local identities by the state and concentrating on minority elite views, may have missed something of the fact…
Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups in China
The Impact of Missionary Christianity Upon Marginalized Ethnic Minorities
This paper combines historical with anthropological evidence on the relationship between Christianity and messianism among the Hmong of Southeast Asia and China. The lack of literacy is a motivating factor in Hmong Christian conversions. Messianism is seen as a reaction to Christian conversion, which encourages the alienation of minority groups
Hmong Religion
Anthropology Goes To War
The Hmong of China
This first ethnography of the Hmong in China is based on Nicholas Tapp’s extensive fieldwork in a Hmong village in Sichuan. Basing his analysis on the concepts of context and agency, Tapp discusses the “paradoxical ambivalence at the heart of Hmong culture.” A paradox arises in the historical and ethnographic construction of the identity of the Hmong by conscious contrast with, and in opposition to, a majority Han Chinese identity at the same tim…
From Lawa to Mon, from Saa' to Thai
Hill Tribes Today
Possessed by the spirits
Patterns and Illusions
Yunnan
The art of symbolic resistance
This is a remarkable and authoritative volume, dealing with the problematics of Uyghur identity in Xinjiang, particularly in terms of their relations with the Han Chinese. The book is almost mathem
The consuming or the consumed
Travel, indeed, struck him as being a waste of time, since he believed that the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience (Huysmans 1959[1888])
Of Grasshoppers, Caterpillars, and Beans
This paper considers Hmong messianism in Asia and beyond from a historical perspective, arguing that its thematic repetition of themes and ideas requires a new understanding of subjectivity at the intersections of the psychological with the social and political. Hmong messianic movements have adopted a variety of forms ranging from the more indigenous to the more explicitly Christian. While the attempt is not to seek a particularist ‘ethnographic…
The Hmong/Miao in Asia
Shamanism and Violence
Nicholas TappThe Australian National University and East China Normal University© 2014, Nicholas TappNotes[1] There is at least one reader on this wider topic, of current urgent interest: the Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence (Juergensmeyer and Kitts Citation2011).[2] Strathern and Stewart (Citation2012a, Citation2012b
Romanticism in China?–Its Implications for Minority Images and Aspirations
Cultural Accommodations in Southwest China
The Hmong of southern China define themselves as an unmarked category in relation to two significant others: the Chinese and the Yi. Using data from fieldwork in Sichuan, the A. examines some problems of Hmong ethnography, inquiring why color terms were used for some groups of Hmong, as well as subdivisions of them. He attempts to consider the Hmong not only in terms of their relationships with the Han, but also with the Yi. However, the weight o…
Geomancy and development
Geomancy is common in Southeast Asia. The imaginative association of disparate spatial and temporal coordinates allows discourses to emerge in which problems that cannot be resolved in the real world may be 'thought' through geomantic images and symbols. The Hindu-Buddhist cosmographies of Southeast Asia form a framework within which the 'geomancies' of minority peoples take place. By modifying the relations of the real world, or depicting them i…
M iao migrants to S hanghai
This paper reports on a recent research project into rural–urban labour migrants in S hanghai, C hina, who are members of ethnic minorities, inquiring into the role of ethnicity in national labour migration. It introduces some of the main features of the ethnic nationalities ( minzu ) in C hina and considers some of the literature on rural–urban migration in C hina which may be considered as relevant to ethnicity. The case of a M iao minority fam…
Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia
The Reformation of Culture
This essay demonstrates how an oral tradition may encapsulate certain aspects of changing social circumstance within the context of a felt past. The first part describes the situation of Hmong refugees in a Thai refugee-camp. An examination of the emergence of a revivalist movement among Hmong refugees in Thailand follows. The third part analyses an oral legend in the context of the refugee situation. The final part considers the material problem…
Muang Metaphysics
Diversity in Diaspora
Hmong refugees from war-torn Laos in the USA, of whom there are now nearly 300,000, contradict images of 'docile, acquiescent' Asian Americans' (ix) associated with more dominant groups like Chines
Religious Issues in China's Rural Development
This paper considers Chinese religion in relation to the changing nature of rural society and modernisation. Rural/urban distinctions are questioned, while the realities of religious differences between them are affirmed. Development is related to modernisation and multiple sources of Chinese modernity are considered. Religion is examined in terms of its tendencies towards diversification and capacity to embody visions of an alternative moral ord…
How to Stop Opium Farming
Chemical Weapons or Hysteria
Highlanders of Thailand
China
Nicholas Tapp is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University, Hong Kong. The information was gathered in the course of a one-month visit to the Institute for South-East Asian Studies in Kunming, Yunnan, and the Institute of Southeast Asian History at Zhongsan University, Canton, together with three weeks in Hong Kong where he interviewed members of the Tao Fong Shan Ecumenical and other Christian groups and leaders. It fo…
Occasional Papers 1-5, Centre of South-East Asian Studies, University of Kent
Housing Structure Among the Yao of Tategang
The Reformation of Culture
This essay demonstrates how an oral tradition may encapsulate certain aspects of changing social circumstance within the context of a felt past. The first part describes the situation of Hmong refugees in a Thai refugee-camp. An examination of the emergence of a revivalist movement among Hmong refugees in Thailand follows. The third part analyses an oral legend in the context of the refugee situation. The final part considers the material problem…
Thailand
Muang Metaphysics
Discourse and Behavior
An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand
Geomancy and development
Geomancy is common in Southeast Asia. The imaginative association of disparate spatial and temporal coordinates allows discourses to emerge in which problems that cannot be resolved in the real world may be 'thought' through geomantic images and symbols. The Hindu-Buddhist cosmographies of Southeast Asia form a framework within which the 'geomancies' of minority peoples take place. By modifying the relations of the real world, or depicting them i…
The Impact of Missionary Christianity Upon Marginalized Ethnic Minorities
This paper combines historical with anthropological evidence on the relationship between Christianity and messianism among the Hmong of Southeast Asia and China. The lack of literacy is a motivating factor in Hmong Christian conversions. Messianism is seen as a reaction to Christian conversion, which encourages the alienation of minority groups
Hmong Religion
From Lawa to Mon, from Saa' to Thai
Mother of Writing
Hill Tribes Today
Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups in China
Lao Peasant Under Socialism
Anthropology Goes To War
Patterns and Illusions
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
International Thai Studies Conference
Film reviews
Dead Man Dead Man. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch; produced by Demetra McBride; camera: Robby Muller. 1996, 120 minutes, black and white, in English, Blackfoot, Cree, and Makah, with no subtitles. Distributed by Miramax. Indigenous Media and the Articulation of Native Identity: Two Mi'kmaq Videos Kwa’ nu'te'/Micmac and Maliseet Artists. Directed by Catherine Anne Martin and Kimberlee McTaggart. 1991, 41 minutes, VHS, color. Produced by the …
Sociology (41 works) · History (37 works) · Political science (32 works) · China (23 works) · Anthropology (22 works) · History (22 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (21 works) · Geography (19 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (18 works) · Art (17 works)