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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828680003321

Autore

Mueggler Erik <1962->

Titolo

The age of wild ghosts : memory, violence, and place in Southwest China / / Erik Mueggler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-93554-3

1-59734-454-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00951/35

Soggetti

Ethnology - China - Yunnan Sheng

Yunnan Sheng (China) Social conditions

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. 321-351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Orthography and Transcription; 1. Introduction; 2. An Intimate Immensity; 3. An Empty Frame; 4. The Valley House; 5. Digested Words; 6. A Spectral State; 7. A Geography of Pain; 8. The Age of Wild Ghosts; 9. A Shattered Gourd; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continuing through the 1990's, as ""the age of wild ghosts.