In Defence of the Archaic: A Reconsideration of the 1950s Ethnic Classification Project in China

Tapp, Nicholas

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“…In opposition to Guldin's idealist opinion, some scholars have proposed using the notion of ‘internal colonialism’ (Gladney ) or ‘Communist Civilising project’ (Harrell 1995) to understand the implication of national minority politics and the role of anthropology and ethnology. As Nicholas Tapp has concluded, the Classification project ‘looks in retrospect like one of the great colonising missions of the twentieth century, a huge internal “self‐Orientalizing” mission designed to homogenise and reify internal cultural differences in the service of a particular kind of … cultural nationalism’ (: 65).…”

Section: Domesticating a Discipline From The Westmentioning

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Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: de-westernisation,bentuhuaand overseas ethnography

Hongling

2016

Social Anthropology

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After relocating to a Chinese context, anthropology inevitably went through a process of domestication: successive initiatives have been undertaken to make the discipline Chinese. This article aims to examine the aspirations and experiments of domesticating anthropology in China by looking at several moments of its development including the emerging globally focused Chinese anthropology. The objective here is not to retrace the history of the discipline in China in detail, but to identify specific moments while placing them within the broader context of a modern division of intellectual labour and power relations.

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Section: Domesticating a Discipline From The Westmentioning

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Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: de-westernisation,bentuhuaand overseas ethnography

Hongling

2016

Social Anthropology

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“…While minorities have the right to develop their own languages, all citizens of China are nevertheless classified as "Chinese." The 56 designated ethnic categories are constituents of, and therefore dependent on and subordinate to, an over-arching homogenous Chinese nationality (zhonghua minzu) which places obligation, responsibility, and loyalty to the state as prerequisites for social, political, and cultural rights (Feng, 2006;Tapp, 2002). The need to bind China's disparate ethnic groups together stems from the perennial concern of the party to ensure social stability and cohesion (Law, 2006).…”

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Possibilities-within-Constraints: Implementing the Funds of Knowledge Concept in the People’s Republic of China

Poole

2016

Front Educ China

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This article is designed as the starting point for future research into the implementation of the funds of knowledge concept in the People's Republic of China. Utilizing an exploratory research design, I sketch how the funds of knowledge concept could be used by teachers to empower ethnic minority and city-born migrant children disadvantaged by government policies that restrict access to educational resources and marginalize local languages. The article identifies a number of logistical and cultural constraints that complicate the implementation of the funds of knowledge concept in the Chinese context, including access to minority and city-born migrant students, guanxi, examination pressure, and cultural scripts for teaching that emphasize knowledge transmission. However, it also suggests how teachers can work within these constraints by taking advantage of curriculum reform in China, which has led to more autonomy at the local level and the creation of elective courses. Elective courses could provide the space for the deployment of strategies that draw on students' funds of knowledge. The strategies proposed include neighborhood walks, artifact collection, and pedagogies for teaching that foster collaboration between teachers and students. The article also extends the notion of funds of knowledge by suggesting how the funds of knowledge concept could be of benefit to China's Han ethnic majority.

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“…La population chinoise fut catégorisée en 55 nationalités minoritaires et une nationalité majoritaire (Han) à la suite d'un grand projet de classification ethnique (minzu shibie 民族识别) lancé par les communistes en 1949 . Sur ce projet national, voir, entres autres : Dreyer (1976) ; Heberer (1989) ; Shaw (1989) ; Harrell (1995) ; Tapp (2002) et Michaud (2009) . d'industries modernes et d'infrastructures, le Guizhou n'attire pas ou très peu d'investissements industriels, faisant ainsi du tourisme une des seules avenues de développement économique .…”

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“…Cette deuxième phase est donc marquée par l'implication des villageois dans le développement du tourisme et l'investissement financier de différents paliers du gouvernement . (Barth 1969 ;Tapp 2002) mais selon les critères du gouvernement et les contraintes imposées par la représentation touristique (Wood 1997 ;Picard 2001 ;McKhann 2001) . Des changements qui contribuent à différents degrés à intégrer cette petite localité (longtemps isolée) à la grande nation chinoise et à ses grands projets de modernisation (Oakes 1998 ;Goodman 2004 ;Tak-chuen 2005 Pour beaucoup de villageois, non seulement le village est maintenant plus accessible, mais il est aussi nettement plus propre .…”

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Le tourisme et le développement économique des régions reculées et ethniques de Chine

Cornet

2011

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Cette note de recherche présente les données préliminaires d’une étude de cas : un petit village appelé Zhaoxing, situé au sud-est de la province du Guizhou en Chine. Depuis l’an 2000, le village de 4 000 habitants se modernise grâce au développement du tourisme. Ses quelque 800 maisons de bois nichées au creux d’une vallée sculptée de rizières, ses ponts couverts et ses tours tambours en font un site pittoresque, qui est devenu un arrêt incontournable pour un nombre toujours grandissant de touristes. Sur la base d’un terrain ethnographique approfondi (entre 2006 et 2007) et de courts séjours (entre 2000 et 2009), cet article présente quelques-unes des dynamiques impliquées dans le processus du développement touristique et économique du village. Il présente les différentes phases de développement entre 1980 et 2010 ainsi que les changements perçus par les habitants du village. Il révèle le jeu de pouvoir souvent inéquitable entre l’industrie touristique, le gouvernement local et les villageois.

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In Defence of the Archaic: A Reconsideration of the 1950s Ethnic Classification Project in China

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: de-westernisation,bentuhuaand overseas ethnography

Chinese anthropology and its domestication projects: de-westernisation,bentuhuaand overseas ethnography

Possibilities-within-Constraints: Implementing the Funds of Knowledge Concept in the People’s Republic of China

Le tourisme et le développement économique des régions reculées et ethniques de Chine

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