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Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China (Hardcover)
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Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China (Hardcover)
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The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social,
economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global
notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term
ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists
in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China
departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of
cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a
fixed definition of place but as a shifting site of negotiation
between state, entrepreneurial, transcultural, and local community
interests. The volume takes readers along an unusual trajectory
between a disadvantaged neighborhood in central Beijing,
metropolitan centers in Anhui and Sichuan, Quanzhou in the
southeast, and Yunnan in the southwest before finally ending at the
great Samye Monastery in Tibet. Across these sites, the
contributors converge in apprehending the grassroots as an arena of
everyday life and belonging underpinning ordinary social
interactions and cultural practices as diverse as funeral rituals,
Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages, and encounters between young
contemporary artists and the Bloomsbury Group. In examining the
diversity of local cultural practices and knowledge that underpin
ideas about cultural value, this volume argues that grassroots
cultural beliefs are essential to the liveability and
sustainability of life and living heritage.
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