Note: Sprachen der Zusammenfassung: Englisch, Spanisch, Chinesisch

Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 365-385

Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-385) and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Sprachen der Zusammenfassung: Englisch, Spanisch, Chinesisch

Note: Angaben zum Inhalt: 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.

Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) , In English

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Foreword. Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Reconsidering the Middle Kingdom -- , Part I. The Center and the Noncenter -- , 2. How Much of China is Ruled by Beijing? -- , 3. Symbols of Southern Identity: Rivaling Unitary Nationalism -- , 4. The Languages of China -- , Part II. Geographic Margins -- , 5. Chinese Turkestan: Xinjiang -- , 6. Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community -- , 7. Town and Village Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin -- , 8. Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Kunming -- , 9. The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities -- , 10. The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise -- , Part III. Social and Cultural Margins -- , 11.Sexual Behavior in Modern China -- , 12. The Cut Sleeve Revisited: A Contemporary Account of Male Homosexuality -- , 13. “The Moon Reflecting The Sunlight”: The Village Woman -- , 14. The Floating Population in the Cities: Markets, Migration, and the Prospects for Citizenship -- , 15. The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China -- , 16. Magic, Science, and Qigong in Contemporary China -- , 17. The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China -- , Afterword: Centers and Peripheries, Nation and World -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Note: Susan D. Blum