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Author:

Blum, Susan Debra.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xx, 235, p. : ill. 22 cm.

Subject:

Ethnicity--China.
Ethnicité--Chine.
China--Ethnic relations.
China--Ethnic relations.
Chine--Relations interethniques.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

9780742500914 (alk. paper)
0742500918 (alk. paper)
9780742500921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742500926 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43708689

LCCN:

00036923

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)