Lijiang Stories - Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

Informationen zum Autor Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. Klappentext Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. Zusammenfassung Reveals how citizens strategically imagine! produce! and critique a new moral economy in which the market and neoliberal logic are pre-eminent Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Stevan Harrell Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Maoist Shaman and the Madman 2. Dongba Culture and the Authenticization of Marginality 3. Ethnicizing Myth, Bride Abduction, and Elopement 4. Biopolitics: Fox Stench, Gender Boundaries, and the Moral Economy of Postsocialism 5. Marketing Difference: Dog Meat, Court Cases, and Ethnopreneurs Conclusion | Forgetting the Madman and Remembering the Ancient Tea Horse Road Notes References Index

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• Authors: Emily Chao, Emily/ Harrell Chao, CHAO EMILY
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2013
• EAN: 9780295992228
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99222-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch; Studies on Ethnic Groups in China; Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch; Lijiang Stories; Studies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaLijiang Stories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories