Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China

Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / Stevan Harrell.

Drawing on his field research in southern Sichuan between 1988 and 1994, Harrell (anthropology, U. of Washington) explores how several groups of the region perceive and promote their ethnic identity in different ways and at different times. After setting out the political, natural, and historical co...

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Main Author: Harrell, Stevan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2001.
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Ethnic groups > Government policy > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Acculturation > China > Sichuan Sheng.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Acculturation
Ethnic groups > Government policy
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Social conditions
Social policy
Ethnische Identität
Minderheitenpolitik
Ethnische Gruppe
Ethnosoziologie
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Ethnic relations.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Social policy.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Social conditions.
China > Sichuan Sheng
Sichuan
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The Political, Natural, and Historical Setting. 1. Some Ethnic Displays. 2. Foundations of Ethnic Identity. 3. Ethnology, Linguistics, and Politics. 4. The Land and Its History
  • pt. 2. Primordial Ethnicity: The Nuosu. 5. Nuosu History and Culture. 6. Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community. 7. Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix. 8. Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area. 9. Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World
  • pt. 3. Historically Contingent Ethnicity: The Prmi and Naze. 10. The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi. 11. The Contested Identity of the Naze. 12. Representing the Naze
  • pt. 4. Residual and Instrumental Ethnicity. 13. Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups.

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