Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China / edited by Stevan Harrell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrell, Stevan.

Series:

Studies on China ; 26.

Studies on China ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yi (Chinese people).

Physical Description:

xi, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

Nearly seven million Yi people live in. Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and recent social changes.

In addition to being valuable as an ethnographic study, this book is also an experiment in communication among three discourses: the cosmopolitan disciplines of history and the social sciences, the Chinese discourse of ethnology and ethnohistory, and the Yi folk discourse of genealogy and ritual. This book uses the case of the Yi to conduct an international conversation across formerly isolated disciplines.

Contents:

Part I The Yi in History

1. Reconstructing Yi History from Yi Records / Wu Gu 21

2. Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books / Wu Jingzhong 35

Part II Nuosu Society in Liangshan

3. A Comparative Approach to Lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han / Ann Maxwell Hill, Eric Diehl 51

4. Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan / Lu Hui 68

5. Names and Genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan / Ma Erzi 81

6. Homicide and Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan / Qubi Shimei, Ma Erzi 94

7. Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan / Liu Yu 104

8. On the Nature and Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan / Bamo Ayi 118

Part III Yi Society in Yunnan

9. The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi / Li Yongxiang 135

10. A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship / Erik Mueggler 144

11. Native Place and Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain 170

Part IV The Yi Today

12. Language Policy for the Yi / David Bradley 195

13. Nationalities Conflict and Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture / Thomas Heberer 214

14. Education and Ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi / Martin Schoenhals 238

15. Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninglang, Yunnan, under the Reforms / Wu Ga (Luovu Vugashynyumo) 256

16. The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong / Liu Xiaoxing 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.

ISBN:

0520219880

0520219899

OCLC:

44468792