Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongj...
Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongj...
Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongjia.
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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G 2018/5369
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 176 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
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Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"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...
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Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongjia.
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Routledge contemporary Asia ; [63]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/5369
Record Identifier
74VKV8v3XMvA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8v3XMvA
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ISBN
9780415528504 hardcover
041552850X hardcover9780415528504
DDC
305.800951
MMS ID
991024187781102626
