Age of Wild Ghosts Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China

Name: Age of Wild Ghosts Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
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ISBN: 9780520226319

ISBN-10: 0520226313

ISBN-13: 9780520226319

Edition: 2001

Authors: Erik Mueggler

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In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continuing through the 1990s, as "the age of wild ghosts." Their stories of this age converge on a dream of community--a bad dream, embodied in the life, death, and reawakening of a single institution: a rotating headman-ship system that expired violently under the Maoist regime. Displaying a sensitive understanding of both Chinese and the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in this…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 375
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Erik Mueggleris Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author ofThe Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China(UC Press).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Orthography and Transcription



Introduction



An Intimate Immensity



An Empty Frame



The Valley House



Digested Words



A Spectral State



A Geography of Pain



The Age of Wild Ghosts



A Shattered Gourd


Notes


References


Index