TY - BOOK AU - Blum,Susan Debra TI - Portraits of "primitives": ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation SN - 0742500918 (alk. paper) AV - GN495.6 .B57 2000 U1 - 305.8/00951 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Ethnicity KW - China KW - Ethnicité KW - Chine KW - ram KW - Minorités KW - Ethnizität KW - swd KW - Nationalitätenpolitik KW - Minorités - Chine KW - gnd KW - Ethnic relations KW - Relations interethniques N1 - 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 ER -