Part 1 Part I: Ethnicity in Context Chapter 2 Introduction: Against Authenticity: Self, Identity, and Nation-Building Chapter 3 Fieldwork in Kunming: Cognitive and Linguistic Anthropological Approaches Chapter 4 Desire for Difference: Cognitive Prototypes of Ethnic Identity Chapter 5 China’s Minorities Through Han Eyes: A Preliminary Sketch Part 6 Part II: Prototypes of Otherness Chapter 7 The Fetishized Ethnic Other: The Dai Chapter 8 Resistant, Disliked Ethnic Others: Wa, Zang, and Hui Chapter 9 Colorful, Harmless Ethnic Others: Naxi and Yi Chapter 10 Almost Us: The Bai Next Door Chapter 11 Conclusion: Typification and Identity in a Complex Nation-State
Susan D. Blum is associate professsor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
...frequently both charming and insightful.
*Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute*
The book's strength lies in its ethnographic material. Western
scholars have often paid attention to how Han Chinese talk about
ethnic minorities, but until Blum, no one bothered to
systematically investigate Han views.
*The China Journal*
Blum not only provides a unique study of majority Chinese attitudes
towards minority groups, but also explains modern anthropological
theories of ethnicity in a wonderfully readable way. This well-done
and workmanlike study not only provides an excellent account of
ethnic stereotyping in south China; it also would be an ideal case
study to use in classes in ethnicity. Recommended for all levels,
and for collections in contemporary China, ethnicity and identity,
and stereotypes and the social construction of belief systems.
*CHOICE*
For examining issues of difference, identity, stereotypes, and
cognition, the book will prove useful to scholars and students
alike.
*Journal of Asian Studies*
Portraits of 'Primitives' tells a story with which we are in
various ways familiar, but which has never yet been told with such
clarity and thoroughness.
*China Quarterly*
This is the first thoroughgoing study of Han perspectives about
minorities. A very important contribution to our understanding of
Chinese society and ethnicity in general.
*Dru Gladney, University of Hawai'i*
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