Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 321 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520219899
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0520219880
Series Statement:
Studies on China 26
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p.283-302) and index
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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
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520219885
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perspectives On the Yi of Southwest China
Language:
English
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