Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands

Koen Wellens is a researcher in the China Program of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo.

出版者:University of Washington Press

作者:Koen Wellens

页数:288

出版时间:2010-11-16

价格:USD 30.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780295990699

图书标签:人类学Anthropology西藏社会学中国西南社会〖普米族研究〗yunnanmemory

Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to scholars in disciplines ranging from religious studies to anthropology to political science. This book examines contemporary religious practices among the Premi people of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet area, a group of about 60,000 who speak a language belonging to the Qiang branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koen Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists called anji.

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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