Author: Harrell, Stevan; editor:
Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,321 pp, Series: Studies on China, 26.. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Yi in History; Reconstructing Yi History from Yi Records; Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books; Nuoso Society in Liangshan: A Comparative Approach to Lineages Among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han; Preferential Bilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage Among the Nuowsu in Liangshan;Names & Genealogies Among the Nuosu of Liangshan; Homicide & Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan; Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan; On the Nature & Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan; Society in Yunnan: The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi; A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship; Native Place & Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan; The Yi Today: Language Policy for the Yi; Nationalities Conflict & Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; Education & Ethnicity Among the Liangshan Yi; Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninghang, Yunnan Under the Reforms; The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan & Chuxiong.

Keywords: Chinese Ethnohistory, Yi Ethnicity, Ethnic History, Yunnan, China, East Asia, Liangshan, Nationality, National Minorities