Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774823682 ISBN 13: 9780774823685

Publisher: UBC Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book will appeal to Asian Studies scholars, as well as toanyone interested in the effects of nation-building on religiousritual, oral tradition, gender roles, and the representation ofhistory.

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Review:

This is a fantastic and first-class collection, highly original in its combination of anthropological with historical approaches and marking a real contribution to understandings of social and cultural processes in southern China. Authored by some of the leading scholars in the field with an unparalleled knowledge of this subject, "Chieftains into Ancestors" is original and enlightening.
- Nicholas Tapp, author of The "Hmong of China: Context, Agency and the Imaginary"

We need to examine state expansion from the perspective of local societies and, with "Chieftains into Ancestors", we now have the conceptual and methodological tools to do this. This is historical anthropology and micro-history at its best.
- John E. Herman, author of "Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200-1700"

Book Description:

This volume combines anthropological fieldwork with historical
textual analysis to build a new regional history that documents the
ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations arising from imperial
China’s nation-building process.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0774823682
• ISBN 13: 9780774823685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Faure David, Ho Ts'ui-p'ing