Description: List of MapsAcknowledgments Part One The Political, Natural, and Historical Setting1. Some Ethnic Displays2. Foundations of Ethnic Identity3. Ethnicity, Linguistics, and Politics4. The Land and Its History Part Two Primordial Ethnicity: The Nuosu1. Nuosu History and Culture2. Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community3. Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix4. Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area5. Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World Part Three Historically Contingent Ethnicity: Prmi and Naze1. The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi2. The Contested Identity of the Naze3. Representing the Naze Part Four Residual and Instrumental Ethnicity1. Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups Part Five Default Ethnicity: The Han1. The Majority as Minority ConclusionComparing Ways of Being Ethnic GlossaryBibliography Index

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