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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452585903321

Titolo

Chieftains into ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : imperial expansion and indigenous society in Southwest China / / edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2013

ISBN

0-7748-2370-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Chinese studies, , 1925-0177

Altri autori (Persone)

FaureDavid

Ts'ui-p'ingHo

Disciplina

305.8009

Soggetti

Ethnology - China, Southwest

Minorities - China, Southwest - Government relations

Minorities - China, Southwest - Ethnic identity

Ancestor worship - China, Southwest

Electronic books.

China, Southwest History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: Language Ideology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong's Qhuab Kev (Showing the Way) /  Huang Shu-li -- Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning -- The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang -- Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors / Lian Ruizhi  --From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan / Xie Xiaohui -- The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / He Xi -- The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State / David Faure -- The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social Reproduction / James Wilkerson -- Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing.