02263nam 22005413u 450 991045476850332120210114061932.00-520-93554-31-59734-454-0(CKB)111056485642002(EBL)224200(OCoLC)475930026(SSID)ssj0000100237(PQKBManifestationID)11127590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100237(PQKBWorkID)10020104(PQKB)10336308(MiAaPQ)EBC224200(EXLCZ)9911105648564200220130418d2001|||| u|| |engtxtccrThe Age of Wild Ghosts[electronic resource] Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest ChinaBerkeley University of California Press20011 online resource (376 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22623-2 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; IndexIn 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.EthnologyEthnology-- China-- Yunnan ShengYunnan Sheng (China) - Social conditionsElectronic books.Ethnology.Ethnology-- China-- Yunnan Sheng.Yunnan Sheng (China) - Social conditions.301.09513305.8/00951/35Mueggler Erik1962-893763AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454768503321The Age of Wild Ghosts1996416UNINA