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:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Reconstructing Y i History from Yi Records; 2. Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books; 3. A Comparative Approach to Lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han; 4. Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan; 5. Names and Genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan; 6. Homicide and Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan; 7. Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan; 8. On the Nature and Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan; 9. The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi

10. A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship11. Native Place and Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan; 12. Language Policy for the Yi; 13. Nationalities Conflict and Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Y i in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; 14. Education and Ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi; 15. Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninglang, Yunnan, under the Reforms; 16. The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong; References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

0-520-93525-X

1-59734-806-6

OCLC:

475930178