Shamans watching shamans
The dialectic of identity in northeast China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3944088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorne Holyoak (University of Saskatchewan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 405-424 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842980503400306 |
| OpenAlex | W2089229869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
The present regime in China is actively engaged in attempting to reduce minority cultures to a contrived set of costumes and festivals. At the same time that the Chinese government uses modern methods of mass communication to carry out this programme, the Manzu minority is using the same technology to counteract government propaganda. This essay analyzes two videotaped performances, one a government program, the other an underground tape of a shamanic ritual, to argue that they present competing tropes of national and ethnic identity. These competing tropes in turn reveal tensions in the public sphere that keep Chinese identity fluid. To come to an understanding of these tropes, the essay considers the reactions of shamans and other members of the community in the context of a Manzu village. The analysis demonstrates the role shamanic ritual plays in maintaining a sense of Manzu identity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
Making Histories
China's forty millions
Creating the Zhuang
Minority Rules
Muslim Chinese
Orphan Warriors
Representing Nationality in China
The Tale of the Nisan Shamaness
Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town
Chinese Minority Policy and the Meaning of Minority Culture
Memory Work
Being "Maasai"; being "people-of-cattle
Flights of the Sacred
Ganienkeh
Ethnicity and Practice
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |