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An important study of ethnic identity in China based on fieldwork in southern Sichuan.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Part One | The Political, Natural, and Historical Setting

1. Some Ethnic Displays

2. Foundations of Ethnic Identity

3. Ethnicity, Linguistics, and Politics

4. The Land and Its History

Part Two | Primordial Ethnicity: The Nuosu

1. Nuosu History and Culture

2. Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community

3. Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix

4. Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area

5. Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World

Part Three | Historically Contingent Ethnicity: Prmi and Naze

1. The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi

2. The Contested Identity of the Naze

3. Representing the Naze

Part Four | Residual and Instrumental Ethnicity

1. Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups

Part Five | Default Ethnicity: The Han

1. The Majority as Minority

Conclusion

Comparing Ways of Being Ethnic

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"This book is primarily about the peoples of Liangshan and Panzhihua. However, it also has quite a bit to say about ethnic relations in the People's Republic, about ethnology, and about the nature of the Chinese state and its future." -- Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia