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Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China /

Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book brings this little-known part of the world to life, describing its history, traditional society, and recent social changes.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Harrell, Stevan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Series:Studies on China ; 26.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reconstructing Yi history from Yi records / Wu Gu
  • Nzymo as seen in some Yi classical books / Wu Jingzhong
  • Comparative approach to lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han / Ann Maxwell Hill and Eric Diehl
  • Preferential bilateral-cross-cousin marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan / Lu Hui
  • Names and genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan / Ma Erzi
  • Homicide and homicide cases in Old Liangshan / Qubi Shimei and Ma Erzi
  • Searching for the heroic age of the Yi people of Liangshan / Liu Yu
  • On the nature and transmission of Bimo knowledge in Liangshan / Bamo Ayi
  • Cold funeral of the Nisu Yi / Li Yongxiang
  • Valley-house / Erik Mueggler
  • Native place and ethnic relations in Lunan Yi autonomous county, Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain
  • Language policy for the Yi / David Bradley
  • Nationalities conflict and ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with special reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture / Thomas Heberer
  • Education and ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi / Martin Schoenhals
  • Nuosu women's economic role in Ningland, Yunnan, under the reforms / Wu Ga (Luovu Vugashynyumo)
  • Yi health care system in Liangshan and Chuxiong / Liu Xiaoxing.