TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rack,Mary
TI  - Ethnic distinctions, local meanings: negotiating cultural identities in China 
T2  - Anthropology, culture, and society
SN  - 0745319394 (cloth)
AV  - DS731.M5 R3 2005
U1  - 305.800951 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, Ann Arbor, MI
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - China
KW  - Hmong (Asian people)
KW  - Culture
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Miao
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-156) and index; Where are the Miao? -- Miao rebels and 'common ground' -- Multiple meanings of the Miao -- The rituals of New Year -- Authority and the local -- Conflict at the Temple of the Celestial Kings -- Conclusions
N2  - Focusing on a rural area of south China, Rack shows how so-called ethnic minority cultural events have become occasions for the exploration of personal identity by urban elites. She suggests that, historically, ethnic classifications were drawn up as a result of elite concern to demonstrate the existence of a contrasting homogeneous and superior civilization
ER  -