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The Art of Ethnography - A Chinese "Miao Album" (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Art of Ethnography - A Chinese "Miao Album" (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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The Art of Ethnography is a fully illustrated translation of a
"Miao album" -- a Chinese genre originating in the eighteenth
century that used prose, poetry, and detailed illustrations to
represent minority ethnic groups living in frontier regions under
imperial Chinese control. These bound collections of hand-painted
illustrations and handwritten text reveal how imperial China viewed
culturally "other" frontier populations. They also contain valuable
information for anthropologists, geographers, and historians, and
are coveted by art collectors for their beautiful imagery. "Miao"
in this context refers not just to groups that called themselves
Miao (Hmong) or were classified as such by the majority Han
culture, but generally to the many minority peoples in China's
southwest. This lovely volume reproduces each of the eighty-two
illustrations from the original album and the corresponding Chinese
calligraphic text, along with an annotated English translation.
Each entry depicts a different ethnic group residing in Guizhou.
The album is anonymous and dates from sometime after 1797. Laura
Hostetler's Introduction discusses the genesis and evolution of the
Miao album genre and the sociopolitical context in which the albums
were first made, the ethnographic content of the texts, the
composition of the illustrations, and the albums' authorship and
production. She situates the albums within the context of early
modern imperial expansion internationally by introducing
comparative examples of Japanese and Ottoman ethnography. Color
illustrations from other Miao albums and comparable works from
other cultures give the reader a sense of the chromatic richness of
Miao album illustrations and of their place in world ethnography.
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