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The Age of Wild Ghosts. Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China

Paperback • 2001

The Age of Wild Ghosts. Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China

By Erik Mueggler

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In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continuing through the 1990s, as "the age of wild ghosts." Their stories of this age converge on a dream of community--a bad dream, embodied in the life, death, and reawakening of a sin...Show more

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The Age of Wild Ghosts. Memory, Violence and Place in Southwest China

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