Portraits of "primitives" : ordering human kinds in the Chinese nation
Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in China. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and other groups as "primitives". This book explores how Han in Kunming, regard ethnic minorities and by extension themselves.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ©2001
xx, 235, pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780742500914, 9780742500921, 0742500918, 0742500926
43708689
Introduction : against authenticity : self, identity, and nation building
Fieldwork in Kunming : cognitive and linguistic anthropological approaches
Desire for difference : cognitive prototypes of ethnic identity
China's minorities through Han eyes : a preliminary sketch
The fetishized ethnic other : the Dai
Resistant disliked ethnic others : Wa, Zang, and Hui
Colorful, harmless, ethnic others : Naxi and Yi
Almost us : the Bai next door
Conclusion : typification and identity in a complex nation-state