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historical documents, find multiple advocates and rationales for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 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.
Koen Wellens is a researcher in the China Program of the
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo.
"A much-welcomed book on the topic of religious revival in
reform-era China and on the Premi people, as well as on the broader
themes of identity politics and the politics of incorporation."
-Adam Yuet Chau, University of Cambridge
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