04163nam 2200721 a 450 991082499080332120221123175302.00-7748-2370-410.59962/9780774823708(CKB)2550000001038962(EBL)3412839(SSID)ssj0001339680(PQKBManifestationID)11770543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339680(PQKBWorkID)11352853(PQKB)10227952(CEL)444899(OCoLC)814661656(CaBNVSL)slc00231942(MdBmJHUP)muse49126(Au-PeEL)EBL3412839(CaPaEBR)ebr10663206(CaONFJC)MIL453605(OCoLC)923449493(MiAaPQ)EBC3412839(DE-B1597)661384(DE-B1597)9780774823708(EXLCZ)99255000000103896220130306d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChieftains into ancestors[electronic resource] imperial expansion and Indigenous society in Southwest China /edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ingVancouver UBC Press20131 online resource (273 p.)Contemporary Chinese StudiesContemporary Chinese studies,1925-01770-7748-2368-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture. Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records, it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate the crucial question of how one can begin to write the history of a conquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combining anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they dig deep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history of China's southwestern region � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.Contemporary Chinese studies,1206-9523.EthnologyChina, SouthwestMinoritiesChina, SouthwestGovernment relationsMinoritiesChina, SouthwestEthnic identityAncestor worshipChina, SouthwestChina, SouthwestHistoryEthnologyMinoritiesGovernment relations.MinoritiesEthnic identity.Ancestor worship305.8009Faure David250252Ts'ui-p'ing Ho1612705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824990803321Chieftains into ancestors3941653UNINA