TY - BOOK ID - 5485298 TI - Religious revival in the Tibetan borderlands : the Premi of southwest China /. PY - 2010 SN - 9780295990699 9780295990682 0295990686 0295990694 0295801557 9780295801551 PB - Seattle University of Washington Press DB - UniCat KW - Pumi (Chinese people) KW - Borderlands KW - Pumi (Peuple de Chine) KW - Régions frontalières KW - Religion KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Social life and customs KW - Rites et cérémonies KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (China) KW - Muli Zangzu Zizhixian (China) KW - Ninglang Yizu Zizhixian (Chine) KW - Religious life and customs KW - Vie religieuse KW - Religion. KW - Rites and ceremonies. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - S11/1230 KW - S24/0910 KW - S13A/0400 KW - Pimi (Chinese people) KW - Primmi (Chinese people) KW - Pruumi (Chinese people) KW - Pʻu-mi (Chinese people) KW - Ethnology KW - Tibeto-Burman peoples KW - Border-lands KW - Border regions KW - Frontiers KW - Boundaries KW - China: Social sciences--Others KW - Tibet--Tibetan Buddhism: general KW - China: Religion--Popular religion: general KW - Borderlands - China. KW - Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East KW - History & Archaeology KW - East Asia KW - Régions frontalières KW - Rites et cérémonies KW - 木里藏族自治县 (China) KW - Mu-li Tsang tsu tzu chih hsien (China) KW - Muli Tibetan Autonomous Xian (China) KW - Muli Zangzu Zizhi xian (China) KW - Mu-li Tibetan Autonomous Hsien (China) KW - Ning-lang I tsu tzu chih hsien (China) KW - Ninglang Yi Autonomous Xian (China) KW - Ning-lang Yi Autonomous Hsien (China) KW - Ning-lang I Autonomous Hsien (China) KW - Social & cultural anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5485298 AB - 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Wellens's ethnographic research in two Premi communities on opposite sides of the border, and his analysis of available historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for the revival of both formal Tibetan Buddhism and the indigenous Premi practices centered on ritual specialists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. ER -