Harriet Evans Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Herita (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in ChinaCondition: NewISBN-10: 1793632731EAN: 9781793632739ISBN: 9781793632739Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/15/2021Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 227mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 658gContributor: Harriet Evans (Edited by), Michael Rowlands (Contributions by), Zhang Lisheng (Contributions by), Harriet Evans (Contributions by), Peter Guangpei Ran (Contributions by), Wang Mingming (Contributions by), Luo Pan (Contributions by), Beverley Butler (Contributions by), Stephan Feuchtwang (Contributions by), He Beili (Contributions by), Wang Mingming (Afterword by), Wu Yinling (Contributions by), Michael Rowlands (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: History, Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesType: TextbookAuthor: Harriet EvansRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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