Chieftains into ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : imperial expansion and indigenous society in Southwest China / / edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - China, Southwest; Minorities - China, Southwest - Government relations; Minorities - China, Southwest - Ethnic identity; Ancestor worship - China, Southwest
• Soggetto geografico: China, Southwest History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FaureDavid Ts'ui-p'ingHo
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chieftains into ancestors
• ISBN: 0-7748-2370-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452585903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Chinese studies, . 1206-9523.