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Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / Stevan Harrell.

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Drawing on his field research in southern Sichuan between 1988 and 1994, Harrell (anthropology, U. of Washington) explores how several groups of the region perceive and promote their ethnic identity in different ways and at different times. After setting out the political, natural, and historical co...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Harrell, Stevan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2001.
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Subjects:
Ethnicity > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Ethnic groups > Government policy > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Acculturation > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Ethnic relations.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Social policy.
Sichuan Sheng (China) > Social conditions.
Acculturation.
Ethnic groups > Government policy.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Social conditions.
Social policy.
China > Sichuan Sheng.
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Summary:Drawing on his field research in southern Sichuan between 1988 and 1994, Harrell (anthropology, U. of Washington) explores how several groups of the region perceive and promote their ethnic identity in different ways and at different times. After setting out the political, natural, and historical contexts, he looks at the primordial ethnicity of the Nuoso, the historically contingent ethnicity of the Prmi and Naze, residual and instrumental ethnicity, and the default ethnicity of the Han. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780295804071
0295804076
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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