Cultural Encounters on China''s Ethnic Frontiers

Informationen zum Autor Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Other contributors are Wurlig Borchigud, Siu-woo Cheung, Norma Diamond, Shih-chung Hsieh, Almaz Khan, Ralph A. Litzinger, Charles F. McKhann, Shelley Rigger, and Margaret Byrne Swain. Klappentext Stevan Harrell is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington. Other contributors are Wurlig Borchigud, Siu-woo Cheung, Norma Diamond, Shih-chung Hsieh, Almaz Khan, Ralph A. Litzinger, Charles F. McKhann, Shelley Rigger, and Margaret Byrne Swain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Civilizing Projects and the Reaction to them Part One | The Historiography of Ethnic Identity: Scholarly & Official Discourses 1. The Naxi and the Nationalities Question 2. The History of the History of the Yi 3. Defining the Miao 4. Making Histories 5. Pere Vial and the Gni-P'a: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project 6. Voices of Manchu Identity, 1635-1935 Part Two | The History of Ethnic Identity: The Process of Peoples 1. Millenarianism, Christian Movements, & Ethnic Change Among the Miao in Southwest China 2. Chinggis Khan: From Imperial Ancestor to Ethnic Hero 3. The Impact of Urban Ethnic Education on Modern Mognolian Ethnicity, 1940-1966 4. On the Dynamics of Tai/Dai-Lue Ethnicity: An Ethnohistorical Analysis Glossary References Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Stevan Harrell, Stevan (EDT) Harrell
• Assisted by: Stevan Harrell (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2015
• EAN: 9780295998923
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99892-3
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China; Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch; Studies on Ethnic Groups in China; Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories