Portraits of "primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese NationRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 - 235 頁 Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of China's fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as "primitive." In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of "Primitives," Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches "portraits," or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of "Hanness" can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 35 筆
第 xvi 頁
... places , dif- ferences are celebrated , in some tolerated , in some forbidden . In some places , fine distinctions of class constitute the main concern of members of society ; in others , the primary concern may be physical strength ...
... places , dif- ferences are celebrated , in some tolerated , in some forbidden . In some places , fine distinctions of class constitute the main concern of members of society ; in others , the primary concern may be physical strength ...
第 97 頁
... places they had heard about , and places they would visit if they could go anywhere they wanted . If I were to represent the salient elements of the world according to a Han resident of Kunming , based on interviews and other ...
... places they had heard about , and places they would visit if they could go anywhere they wanted . If I were to represent the salient elements of the world according to a Han resident of Kunming , based on interviews and other ...
第 160 頁
... places that no sane person would choose to live in : remote , chilly , rocky , without rice or entertainment or transportation , places of exile and horror . ? One minority nationality student I interviewed admitted that there were ...
... places that no sane person would choose to live in : remote , chilly , rocky , without rice or entertainment or transportation , places of exile and horror . ? One minority nationality student I interviewed admitted that there were ...
內容
Cognitive and Linguistic | 17 |
Cognitive Prototypes of Ethnic Identity | 49 |
A Preliminary Sketch | 67 |
著作權所有 | |
8 個其他區段未顯示
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
anthropology areas attributes Autonomous Prefecture backward Blum cadres Cambridge chapter Chinese clothing colorful context contrast culture Dali dance dialect dirty discussion Dongba Dongba script Dongchuan especially ethnic groups ethnic minorities Evaluation Task figure foreign Gejiu Getihu Gladney guessed Han chauvinism Hani Hong idealized cognitive model Identification and Evaluation Jingpo Kunming Kunmingers Kunminghua Lahu Lijiang Lincang Linguistic Identification linguistic varieties Lisu live Mandarin marriage matriarchy mentioned Miao minority nationalities minzu modernization Mosuo Muslim nation-state Naxi nority official peasants people's percent person political population primitive prototypes province Putonghua regarded Ribao salient Sani script sexual Sichuan social society southwest China speak speakers standard Mandarin Statistical Portrait Stevan Harrell stories student essays teachers Tibet Tibetans tion traditional University Press urban views Water Splashing Festival women writing system Xishuangbanna Yunnan Yunnan University Yunnanhua Zang Zhuang