Chieftains Into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China

ISBN-13: 9780774823685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

David Faure; Cuiping He; David Faure

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Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history.