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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China : a Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier.
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social sys...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Technical notes; 1 Introduction; 2 The escape of E Sha Buddha: ethnicity and political movements in the Black River valley; 3 Death threat and self-negation: tension and pressure in the spiritual world; 4 Marriage and land property: bilateral, non-lineal kinship and communal authority; 5 'To become wives of the Han': conflicts, marriage squeeze and the resettlement of women; 6 Poverty reduction and education; 7 Suicide as a cultural response and an indicator of the change in social relationships
- 8 Concluding remarksAppendix 1: the chronicle of Ban village in the Black River valley; Appendix 2: the changes in the population and the cropland of Ban village; Appendix 3: the basic data of the Black River Township; Chinese glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index