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Portraits of "primitives" : ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation / Susan D. Blum.

By: Publication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.Description: xx, 235, p. : ill. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0742500918 (alk. paper)
  • 9780742500914 (alk. paper)
  • 0742500926 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780742500921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Portraits of "primitives"; Online version:: Portraits of "primitives"DDC classification:
  • 305.8/00951 21
LOC classification:
  • GN495.6 .B57 2000
Contents:
Introduction : against authenticity : self, identity, and nation building -- Fieldwork in Kunming : cognitive and linguistic anthropological approaches -- Desire for difference : cognitive prototypes of ethnic identity -- China's minorities through Han eyes : a preliminary sketch -- The fetishized ethnic other : the Dai -- Resistant disliked ethnic others : Wa, Zang, and Hui -- Colorful, harmless, ethnic others : Naxi and Yi -- Almost us : the Bai next door -- Conclusion : typification and identity in a complex nation-state.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks GN495.6 .B57 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available TBC00003381
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks GN495.6 .B57 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available TBC00010003

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-226) and index.

Introduction : against authenticity : self, identity, and nation building -- Fieldwork in Kunming : cognitive and linguistic anthropological approaches -- Desire for difference : cognitive prototypes of ethnic identity -- China's minorities through Han eyes : a preliminary sketch -- The fetishized ethnic other : the Dai -- Resistant disliked ethnic others : Wa, Zang, and Hui -- Colorful, harmless, ethnic others : Naxi and Yi -- Almost us : the Bai next door -- Conclusion : typification and identity in a complex nation-state.

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