The age of wild ghosts : memory, violence, and place in Southwest China /

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Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mueggler, Erik, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Ethnology > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Ethnologie > Chine > Yunnan (Sheng)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology
Social conditions
Ethnosoziologie
Etnografie.
Sociale aspecten.
Ethnologie > Chine > Yunnan (Chine)
Yi (peuple de Chine) > Moeurs et coutumes.
73.06 ethnography.
Yunnan Sheng (China) > Social conditions.
Yunnan (Chine : Sheng) > Conditions sociales.
China > Yunnan Sheng
Yunnan
China.
Yunnan (Chine) > Conditions sociales > 1949-1976.
Yunnan (Chine) > Conditions rurales > 1949-1976.
China, Southwest > Social conditions.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; A Note on Orthography and Transcription; 1. Introduction; 2. An Intimate Immensity; 3. An Empty Frame; 4. The Valley House; 5. Digested Words; 6. A Spectral State; 7. A Geography of Pain; 8. The Age of Wild Ghosts; 9. A Shattered Gourd; Notes; References; Index.

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