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Skidmore College
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Abstract
This paper is an analysis of the current state of Nakhi minority culture as practiced by Nakhi women living in the city of Lijiang and its surrounding areas. This analysis presents a historical assessment of the cultural, economic, historical, and political factors that have lead to the creation of the Lijiang Old Town that we see today and the current state of Nakhi culture surrounding that development. As well, this paper presents a field assessment of the current state of Nakhi cultural practice in light of the internalized discourses of the Chinese state and the indigenous discourses of the Nakhi people, especially those related to the gendering and spatializtaion of Nakhi authenticity. This study was conducted using a qualitative interview methodology that entailed interviews of Nakhi women, the representatives of Nakhi culture in China and abroad, across generations and across Nakhi space to better understand Nakhi conceptualizations of Nakhi identity.
Disciplines
Community-Based Learning | Family, Life Course, and Society | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Regional Sociology | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Sociology of Culture
Recommended Citation
Gordon, Wyatt, "Through Women’s Eyes The Development of Lijiang and Nakhi Cultural Change" (2013). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 1545.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/1545
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Community-Based Learning Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons, Regional Sociology Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons
Program Name
China: Language, Cultures, and Ethnic Minorities