Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China.
Faure, David.
Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Contemporary Chinese Studies . - Contemporary Chinese Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite -- 2 Chief, God, or National Hero? -- 3 The Venerable Flying Mountain -- 4 Surviving Conquest in Dali -- 5 From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority -- 6 The Past Tells It Differently -- 7 The Tusi That Never Was -- 8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom -- 9 Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland -- Contributors -- Index.
An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.
9780774823708
Ethnology -- China, Southwest.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Government relations.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Ethnic identity.
Ancestor worship -- China, Southwest.
China, Southwest -- History.
Electronic books.
DS730 -- .C45 2013eb
305.800951/3
Chieftains into Ancestors : Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Contemporary Chinese Studies . - Contemporary Chinese Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite -- 2 Chief, God, or National Hero? -- 3 The Venerable Flying Mountain -- 4 Surviving Conquest in Dali -- 5 From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority -- 6 The Past Tells It Differently -- 7 The Tusi That Never Was -- 8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom -- 9 Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland -- Contributors -- Index.
An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China's minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.
9780774823708
Ethnology -- China, Southwest.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Government relations.
Minorities -- China, Southwest -- Ethnic identity.
Ancestor worship -- China, Southwest.
China, Southwest -- History.
Electronic books.
DS730 -- .C45 2013eb
305.800951/3