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Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
The Premi of Southwest China
Wellens argues that the variety in the shape the revitalization process takes-as it affects Premi on the Sichuan side of the border and their counterparts on the Yunnan side-can only be understood in a local cultural context. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics.
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Reviews
"This is the work that anthropologists of southwest China have been looking forward to. . . . [It] fills in the ethnogaphic gap of English -speaking anthropology on the Tibetan-Yi corridor . . . is full of insightful observations that only intensive fieldwork can render."—Liang Yongjia, Asian Ethnology
"Wellens is to be commended for the detailed and grounded manner in which he reveals the complexities of the historical, linguistic, and ethnic makeup of the Tibetan borderlands and the care with which he documents Premi culture."—Gerald Roche, China Review International, Vol. 17(3), 2010
"The author . . . convincingly reminds readers that Muli's ordinary people have successfully adapted external religious doctrines to their own syncretic practices and rituals, despite the state's hegemonic classifications in an invincible worldly system."—Shao-Hua Liu, Pacific Affairs, March 2012
". . . a fine ethnographic example of 'thick description' . . . [T]his balanced and thoughtful piece of scholarship . . . gives fascinating insights into the role of certain social actors in several Premi villages and of the social complexities in play between ritual, religion, ethnicity and the power of China's nationality politics."—Mona Schrempf, Journal of Asian Studies, November 2011
Endorsements
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