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Author Wellens, Koen

Title Religious revival in the Tibetan borderlands : the Premi of southwest China / Koen Wellens
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 278 pages)
Series Studies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Contents Muli : the political integration of a Lama kingdom -- Bustling township : a Muli township in the post-Mao era -- The Premi house : ritual and relatedness -- Premi cosmology : ritual and the state -- Modernity in Yunnan : religion and the Pumizu
Summary Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the Premi people of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet area, a group of about 60,000 who speak a language belonging to the Qiang branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koen Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists called anji.Wellens argues that the variety in the shape the revitalization process takes--as it affects Premi on the Sichuan side of the border and their counterparts on the Yunnan side--can only be understood in a local cultural context. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics
Analysis Social & cultural anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pumi (Chinese people) -- Religion
Pumi (Chinese people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Pumi (Chinese people) -- Social life and customs
Borderlands -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Borderlands -- China
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Borderlands
Manners and customs
Pumi (Chinese people) -- Social life and customs
Ethnische Identität
Pumi Volk
Religiöses Leben
Revitalisationsbewegung
SUBJECT Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (China) -- Religious life and customs
Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (China) -- Social life and customs
Muli Zangzu Zizhixian (China) -- Religious life and customs
Muli Zangzu Zizhixian (China) -- Social life and customs
Subject China
China -- Muli Zangzu Zizhixian
China -- Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694579
ISBN 9780295801551
0295801557