
| this book concludes that bai identity is a new form of group affiliation,new in the sense that the bai have entered the new world of a clear-cut baizu category, but it is not completely unfamiliar to them. |
| BAI Zhihong, PhD (ANU), associate professor in the Research School of Ethnic Minority Studies and Centre for Southwest Borderland Ethnic Minority Studies at Yunnan University. Since 1996, she has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Yi, Bai, Zang (Tibetan) and Wa communities in Yunnan. She has published in prestigious journals both in Chinese and English.Her research interests include ethnicity and ethnic identity, economic development among indigenous peoples, gender, and social policy. |
| list of tables and figures illustrations of bai social life preface acknowledgments introduction abbreviations chapter one contextualising the bai and the research chapter two the making of minzu and its conceptual implications chapter three the politics of local scholarly making of the bai chapter four partial identity and the different degrees of bai-ness chapter five identity manifested in religious practices chapter six negotiating interpretations and identity-making in an annual social event: gua sa na chapter seven ethnic identities under the tourist gaze chapter eight becoming ethnically distinctive glossary |
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