1st Edition
Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority The Bai People of Southwest China
By Liang Yongjia
Copyright 2018
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of "alterity", which suggests a... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1 Situating the Field, Chapter 2 Removing Religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s, Chapter 3 Introducing Ethnicity: The Promise of the Utopian Alterity, Chapter 4 Ethnicity Perpetuated: Nanzhao History between China and Thailand, Chapter 5 Religious Revival in Dali and Xizhou, Chapter 6 Culturalization of religion and ethnicity, Chapter 7 Temple lost, Temple Regained: The Sacred Public Space, Conclusion
Biography
Liang Yongjia is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
