Minority Rules

by Schein, Louisa; Appadurai, Arjun; Comaroff, John L.; Farquhar, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780822324447
• ISBN10: 082232444X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""Minority Rules" is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists."--Lila Abu-Lughod, author of "Veiled Sentiments" and "Writing Women's Worlds"

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Nation / Representation

Of Origins and Ethnonyms Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies

Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work

Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularization of China's Others

Reconfiguring the Dominant

Identity and Cultural Struggle

Songs for Sale: Spectacle from the Mao to Market

Scribes, Sartorial Acts, and the State: Calling Culture Back

Displacing Subalternity: The Mobile Other

Performances of Minzu Modernity

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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