Techniques of Direct Action: Miao-Yao Variations in Shamanic Healing by Jacques Lemoine Shamanism among the Miao-Yao group, here represented by the Hmong and the Mien-Yao, is a healing technique, its only concern being the curing of pernicious disease. It is a way of communication with the unseen part of the phenomenal world by direct intrusion of the shaman through trance. The trance of the...