Material from chapter 4 appears in Modern China 39, no. 5 (September 2013). Material from chapter 5 appears in China Quarterly (forthcoming).

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Tenzin, Jinba.

In the land of the eastern queendom : the politics of gender and ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan border / Tenzin Jinba. — First edition.

pages      cm — (Studies on ethnic groups in China)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-295-99306-5 (cloth : alk. paper); 978-0-295-99307-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Ethnology—China—Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou 2. Ethnicity—China—Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou 3. Matriarchy—China—Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou 4. Matrilineal kinship—China—Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou 5. Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou (China)—Ethnic relations. 6. Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou (China)—Social life and customs. I. Title.

GN635.C5T46 2014
305.800951—dc23 2013018070

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