ISBN:
9780203861387
,
9781135171964
,
9781135172008
,
9781135172015
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary Asia series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.80095
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
;
Communication and culture
;
Names, Ethnological
;
Asia Ethnic relations
Abstract:
chapter Introduction -- part Part I: Ethnonyms: Naming oneself, naming others and being named in a multi-ethnic complex -- chapter 1 The ethnonyms of the Hmong in Vietnam: Early history (1856–1924) and practical epistemology -- chapter 2 Rai, Khambu, Subbu, Kirant, et cetera: ethnic labels or political and land tenure categories? Logics of identification of an ensemble of populations in Nepal -- chapter 3 Making ethnonyms in a clan social organization: the case of the so- called Kachin subgroups (Burma) -- chapter 4 Names and territoriality among the Phunoy: How the state creates ethnic group (Lao PDR) -- part PART II Spatial configurations and appropriation of the social landscape in multi- ethnic contexts -- chapter 5 A sense of place: the spatial referent in the definition of identities and territories in the Dulong Valley (north- west Yunnan – China) -- chapter 6 Territorial construction and ethnic relations in the context of collectivisation: a case study from a mountain area in northern Vietnam -- part PART III Presence and use of the Other in religious rituals -- chapter 7 Orthodox Russians, Siberian shamanists and a bear: How do you take an oath in Siberia? -- chapter 8 The illness is the other people: cross- representations and ritual management of alterity and illness among the Kulung (Nepal) -- chapter 9 Presence and use of the Burmese legend heritage in the dynamic of inter- ethnic supremacy and trans- ethnic partnership (South Shan State) -- part PART IV Analyse a- contrario -- chapter 10 Ethnic isolationism in the China–South- East Asia borderlands.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203861387
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