| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 278 pages) |
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Studies on ethnic groups in China |
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Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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| Contents |
Muli : the political integration of a Lama kingdom -- Bustling township : a Muli township in the post-Mao era -- The Premi house : ritual and relatedness -- Premi cosmology : ritual and the state -- Modernity in Yunnan : religion and the Pumizu |
| Summary |
Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the Premi people of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet area, a group of about 60,000 who speak a language belonging to the Qiang branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koen Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists called anji.Wellens argues that the variety in the shape the revitalization process takes--as it affects Premi on the Sichuan side of the border and their counterparts on the Yunnan side--can only be understood in a local cultural context. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics |
| Analysis |
Social & cultural anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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| Subject |
Pumi (Chinese people) -- Religion
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Pumi (Chinese people) -- Rites and ceremonies
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Pumi (Chinese people) -- Social life and customs
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Borderlands -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Borderlands -- China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Borderlands
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Manners and customs
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Pumi (Chinese people) -- Social life and customs
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Ethnische Identität
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Pumi Volk
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Religiöses Leben
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Revitalisationsbewegung
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Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (China) -- Religious life and customs
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Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (China) -- Social life and customs
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Muli Zangzu Zizhixian (China) -- Religious life and customs
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Muli Zangzu Zizhixian (China) -- Social life and customs
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China
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China -- Muli Zangzu Zizhixian
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China -- Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021694579 |
| ISBN |
9780295801551 |
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0295801557 |
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