PERSPECTIVES ON THE YI OF SOUTHWEST CHINA.

Harrell, Stevan (Editor).

ISBN 10: 0520219899 / ISBN 13: 9780520219892

Published by University of California, Berkeley CA 2001., 2001

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1st edition. 8vo. xi + 321pp. Ownership inscription to half title, otherwise a very good paperback copy in origial pictorial red wrapps. lettered in black and white. ISBN 0520219899 US$12.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PERSPECTIVES ON THE YI OF SOUTHWEST CHINA.
• Publisher: University of California, Berkeley CA 2001.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520219899
• ISBN 13: 9780520219892
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China is a remarkable collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and recent social changes.

In addition to being valuable as an ethnographic study, this book is also an experiment in communication among three discourses: the cosmopolitan disciplines of history and the social sciences, the Chinese discourse of ethnology and ethnohistory, and the Yi folk discourse of genealogy and ritual. This book uses the case of the Yi to conduct an international conversation across formerly isolated disciplines.

About the Author

Stevan Harrell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and Acting Curator of Asian Ethnology at the Burke Museum. He is author of the forthcoming Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (2000), Human Families (1997) and Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan (1982). He is also co-editor of Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China (2000), with Bamo Qubumo and Ma Erzi. His edited volumes include Chinese Historical Microdemography (California, 1995) and Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993, coedited with Deborah Davis).