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Author Harrell, Stevan.

Title Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / Stevan Harrell
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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
Summary 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 contexts, he looks at the primordial ethnicity of the Nuoso, the historically contingent ethnicity of the Prmi and Naze, residual and instrumental ethnicity, and the default ethnicity of the Han. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Notes Print version record
Subject 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
SUBJECT Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Ethnic relations
Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social policy
Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions
Subject China -- Sichuan Sheng
Sichuan
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00068319
ISBN 9780295804071
0295804076