Emily Chao

Lijiang Stories

Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

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Produktbeschreibung

Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780295992228
• ISBN-10: 0295992220
• Artikelnr.: 35562804

Autorenporträt

Emily Chao is professor of anthropology at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Stevan Harrell
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Maoist Shaman and the Madman
2. Dongba Culture and the Authenticization of Marginality
3. Ethnicizing Myth, Bride Abduction, and Elopement
4. Biopolitics: Fox Stench, Gender Boundaries, and the Moral Economy of
Postsocialism
5. Marketing Difference: Dog Meat, Court Cases, and Ethnopreneurs
Conclusion Forgetting the Madman and Remembering the Ancient Tea Horse
Road
Notes
References
Index