Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of southwest China /
This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary Asia series ;
63. |
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Table of Contents:
- Situating the field
- Removing religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s
- Introducing ethnicity: the promise of the utopian alterity
- Ethnicity perpetuated: Nanzhao history between China and Thailand
- Religious revival in Dali and Xizhou
- Culturalization of religion and ethnicity
- Temple lost, temple regained: the sacred public space.