Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this major work [Harrell] sums up a decade and a half of research on ethnicity and ethnic relations in an area centering on southern Sichuan."
* Choice *
"A solid, focused, rich, and rewarding ethnographic contribution..It is essential reading for anyone in the field of minority studies in China."
* The Journal of Asian Studies *
"One of the best-organized, engaging, factually comprehensive accounts on ethnicity in China to appear in several decades."
* The Historian *
"This is an important book. After years of writing papers on China's ethnic minorities that often focused on official discourse and representations, Stevan Harrell has taken up the challenge to explore the myriad ways in which ethnicity is actually lived."
* The China Journal *
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Acknowledgments
Part One | The Political, Natural, and Historical Setting
1. Some Ethnic Displays
2. Foundations of Ethnic Identity
3. Ethnicity, Linguistics, and Politics
4. The Land and Its History
Part Two | Primordial Ethnicity: The Nuosu
1. Nuosu History and Culture
2. Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community
3. Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix
4. Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area
5. Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World
Part Three | Historically Contingent Ethnicity: Prmi and Naze
1. The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi
2. The Contested Identity of the Naze
3. Representing the Naze
Part Four | Residual and Instrumental Ethnicity
1. Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups
Part Five | Default Ethnicity: The Han
1. The Majority as Minority
Conclusion
Comparing Ways of Being Ethnic
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
