Perspectives on the Yi of southwest China [electronic resource].
Harrell, Stevan.
Harrell, Stevan.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2001.
Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life.
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Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Reconstructing Y i History from Yi Records; 2. Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books; 3. A Comparative Approach to Lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han; 4. Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan; 5. Names and Genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan; 6. Homicide and Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan; 7. Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan; 8. On the Nature and Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan; 9. The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi
10. A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship11. Native Place and Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan; 12. Language Policy for the Yi; 13. Nationalities Conflict and Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Y i in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; 14. Education and Ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi; 15. Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninglang, Yunnan, under the Reforms; 16. The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong; References; List of Contributors; Index
Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Yi (Chinese people).