Chieftains Into Ancestors

Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China
Herausgeber: Faure, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780774823692
• ISBN-10: 0774823690
• Artikelnr.: 40049729

Autorenporträt

Edited by David Faure and Ho Ts'ui-p'ing

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / David Faure
1 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
2 Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic
Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning
3 The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and
Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang
4 Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors / Lian Ruizhi
5 From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White
Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan / Xie Xiaohui
6 The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the
Creation of Lineage Society in South China / He Xi
7 The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State / David
Faure
8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social
Reproduction / James Wilkerson
9 Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland / Ho
Ts'ui-p'ing
Contributors
Index