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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454821703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-93525-X

1-59734-806-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Studies on China ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrellStevan

Disciplina

951/.3004951

Soggetti

Yi (Chinese people)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.283-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Reconstructing Y i History from Yi Records; 2. Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books; 3. A Comparative Approach to Lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han; 4. Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan; 5. Names and Genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan; 6. Homicide and Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan; 7. Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan; 8. On the Nature and Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan; 9. The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi

10. A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship11. Native Place and Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan; 12. Language Policy for the Yi; 13. Nationalities Conflict and Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Y i in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; 14. Education and Ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi; 15. Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninglang, Yunnan, under the Reforms; 16. The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong; References; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.