Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 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 exami...
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| description | Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 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Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1224122025-03-24T12:25:14Z Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands Wellens, Koen Social and cultural anthropology Social groups: religious groups and communities Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 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. 2023-11-17T10:21:42Z 2023-11-17T10:21:42Z 2023-08-28T08:09:27Z 2011 book ONIX_20230828_9780295801551_3 OCN: 1298207564 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75789 9780295801551 9780295990682 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122412 eng Studies on Ethnic Groups in China open access image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75789/8/9780295801551.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75789/8/9780295801551.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75789/1/9780295801551.pdf University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295801551 10.6069/9780295801551 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 9780295801551 9780295990682 University of Washington Press 288 Seattle open access |
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