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Minorities --- Minorités --- S06/0240 --- S11/1215 --- -#SML: Joseph Spae --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- Minorités --- #SML: Joseph Spae

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The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. The authors shake off the shackles of the orientalist legacy but retain a close reading of local processes. They challenge the boundaries of China and question its study from different perspectives, but believe that area studies have a role to play if their geographies are studied according to certain common problems.In the case of China, the book shows the diverse array of critical but solidly grounded research approaches that can be used in studying a society. Its approach neither trivializes nor dismisses the elusive effects of culture, and it pays attention to both the state and the multiplicity of voices that challenge it.

Nationalism --- China --- Foreign relations --- S02/0200 --- S06/0240 --- S11/1100 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Immigration and emigration, Overseas Chinese (huaqiao) --- 21st century, China, Empires, Foreign relations, Modernity, Nationalism, Racism Russia.

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Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China’s postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state.Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, village rituals, journalistic encounters, and tourism events are not just moments of cultural production but also performances of modernity through which others are made primitive. Schein finds that these moments frequently highlight internal differences among the Miao and demonstrates how not only minorities but more generally peasants and women offer a valuable key to understanding China as it renegotiates its place in the global order.

Hmong (Asian people) --- Ethnic relations --- Hmong (Peuple d'Asie) --- Relations interethniques --- Social life and customs. --- Political aspects. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect politique --- S11/1224 --- S06/0240 --- China: Social sciences--Miao --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- Hmoob (Asian people) --- Hmu (Asian people) --- Hmung (Asian people) --- Humung (Asian people) --- Meo (Southeast Asian people) --- Miao people --- Moob (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnic politics --- Political aspects --- Social life and customs

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A civilizing project, as described in this book, is a kind of interaction between peoples, in which one group, the civilizing center, interacts with other groups (the peripheral peoples) in terms of a particular kind of inequality. In this interaction, the inequality between the civilizing center and the peripheral peoples has its ideological basis in the center's claim to a superior degree of civilization, along with a commitment to raise the peripheral peoples' civilization to the level of the center, or at least closer to that level.

Ethnicity --- Acculturation --- Ethnicité --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- China --- Chine --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques --- Ethnicité --- S06/0240 --- S11/1223 --- S11/1224 --- S11/1225 --- S11/1230 --- S11/1226 --- -844.1 Minderheden --- -845 Religie --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Noso, Naxi --- China: Social sciences--Miao --- China: Social sciences--Yao --- China: Social sciences--Others --- China: Social sciences--Zhuang-Tai --- Sociology of minorities --- 811 Filosofie --- 812 Ideologie --- 815 Geschiedenis --- 821.1 Volkenrecht --- 826 Imperialisme, Kolonialisme --- 841.5 Bestuur en beleid --- 841 Politiek Bestel --- 844.1 Minderheden --- 845 Religie --- 846.2 Racisme --- 846 Identiteit --- 847 Onderwijs --- 860 (Vredes)cultuur --- 883.2 Oost-Azië --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic relations. --- Social life and customs. --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- Social & cultural anthropology

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Marginality, Social --- Citizenship --- People with social disabilities --- Marginalité --- Citoyenneté --- Education civique --- Handicapés sociaux --- Study and teaching --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- S14/0454 --- S14/0800 --- S06/0240 --- S06/0255 --- China: Education--Education: since 1989 --- China: Education--Teaching methods --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Politics and government--Political theory: modern (and/or under Western influence) --- S02/0200 --- S06/0260 --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Culturally deprived people --- Culturally disadvantaged people --- Disadvantaged people, Culturally --- Disadvantaged people, Socially --- People with cultural disabilities --- Socially disadvantaged people --- Socially handicapped --- Underprivileged people --- People with disabilities --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: Politics and government--The Chinese model --- Law and legislation --- MARGINALITE SOCIALE --- CITOYENNETE --- HANDICAPES --- CHINE --- ETUDE ET ENSEIGNEMENT --- POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT