Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China / edited by Stevan Harrell.

ISBN:

9780520935259

9780585390215

9780520219885

9780520219892

9781597348065

Title:

Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China / edited by Stevan Harrell.

Author:

Harrell, Stevan.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

Studies on China ; 26

Contents:

Reconstructing Yi history from Yi records / Nzymo as seen in some Yi classical books / Comparative approach to lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han / Preferential bilateral-cross-cousin marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan / Homicide and homicide cases in Old Liangshan / Searching for the heroic age of the Yi people of Liangshan / On the nature and transmission of Bimo knowledge in Liangshan / Cold funeral of the Nisu Yi / Valley-house / Native place and ethnic relations in Lunan Yi autonomous county, Yunnan / Language policy for the Yi / Nationalities conflict and ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with special reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture / Education and ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi / Nuosu women's economic role in Ningland, Yunnan, under the reforms / Yi health care system in Liangshan and Chuxiong

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Subject Term:

Yi (Chinese people)

Added Author:

Harrell, Stevan.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2001

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Summary

Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and recent social changes.

In addition to being valuable as an ethnographic study, this book is also an experiment in communication among three discourses: the cosmopolitan disciplines of history and the social sciences, the Chinese discourse of ethnology and ethnohistory, and the Yi folk discourse of genealogy and ritual. This book uses the case of the Yi to conduct an international conversation across formerly isolated disciplines.