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The age of wild ghosts : memory, violence, and place in Southwest China / Erik Mueggler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mueggler, Erik, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--China--Yunnan Sheng.
- Ethnology.
- Yunnan Sheng (China)--Social conditions.
- Yunnan Sheng (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 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.
- Contents:
- 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; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93554-3
- 1-59734-454-0
- OCLC:
- 475930026
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