Disappearing World

How the life of the nomadic Tuareg has changed as the years go by. Through changes in the social structure of Tuareg society, the ancient wandering ways are becoming extinct.

Anthropologist Jacques Lemoine looks at the Meo (Hmong) who were originally aborigines of northern central China but forced to migrate south to avoid oppression and to preserve their way of life. Today they live in villages scattered over China and Southeast Asia. This program is about the Meo in Laos where they suffered heavy losses in the civil war. Shows the Meo in American backed refugee camps and includes their traditional lifestyle which they are trying to preserve