Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

List of Maps ix Acknowledgments x PART 1. THE POLITICAL, NATURAL, AND HISTORICAL SETTING Some Ethnic Displays 5(11) Foundations of Ethnic Identity 16(17) Ethnology, Linguistics, and Politics 33(24) The Land and Its History 57(24) PART 2. PRIMORDIAL ETHNICITY: THE NUOSU Nuosu History and Culture 81(23) Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community 104(25) Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix 129(24) Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area 153(18) Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World 171(22) PART 3. HISTORICALLY CONTINGENT ETHNICITY: THE PRMI AND NAZE The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi 193(23) The Contested Identity of the Naze 216(23) Representing the Naze 239(24) PART 4. RESIDUAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ETHNICITY Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups 263(32) PART 5. DEFAULT ETHNICITY: THE HAN The Majority as Minority 295(18) Conclusion Comparing Ways of Being Ethnic 313(18) Glossary 331(10) Bibliography 341(24) Index 365