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Minority Rules : The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics, Pape...

by Louisa Schein

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Minority Rules : The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics, Paperback by Schein, Louisa; Appadurai, Arjun (EDT); Comaroff, John L. (EDT); Farquhar, Judith (EDT), ISBN 082232444X, ISBN-13 9780822324447, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state. Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, villa

  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Year: 2000
  • ISBN: 9780822324447
  • Condition: Fine

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