02295nam 22005534a 450 991082868000332120200520144314.00-520-93554-31-59734-454-010.1525/9780520935549(CKB)111056485642002(EBL)224200(OCoLC)475930026(SSID)ssj0000100237(PQKBManifestationID)11127590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100237(PQKBWorkID)10020104(PQKB)10336308(MiAaPQ)EBC224200(DE-B1597)648070(DE-B1597)9780520935549(EXLCZ)9911105648564200220000607d2001 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe age of wild ghosts memory, violence, and place in Southwest China /Erik Mueggler1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (376 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22623-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-351) and index.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.EthnologyChinaYunnan ShengYunnan Sheng (China)Social conditionsEthnology305.8/00951/35Mueggler Erik1962-1141065MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828680003321The age of wild ghosts4120605UNINA