| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies on China ; 26
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Studies on China ; 26.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yi (Chinese people)
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Yi (Chinese people) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Harrell, Stevan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520219880 (DLC) 00055970 (OCoLC)44468792 |
| ISBN |
9780520935259 (electronic book) |
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052093525X (electronic book) |
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0585390215 (electronic book) |
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9780585390215 (electronic book) |
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0520219880 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520219885 (alkaline paper) |
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0520219899 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520219892 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1597348066 |
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9781597348065 |
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