CONTENTS
PART 1. THE POLITICAL, NATURAL, AND HISTORICAL SETTING
2 / Foundations of Ethnic Identity
3 / Ethnology, Linguistics, and Politics
PART 2. PRIMORDIAL ETHNICITY: THE NUOSU
6 / Mishi: A Demographically and Culturally Nuosu Community
7 / Baiwu: Nuosu in an Ethnic Mix
8 / Manshuiwan: Nuosu Ethnicity in a Culturally Han Area
9 / Nuosu, Yi, China, and the World
PART 3. HISTORICALLY CONTINGENT ETHNICITY: THE PRMI AND NAZE
10 / The Contingent Ethnicity of the Prmi
11 / The Contested Identity of the Naze
PART 4. RESIDUAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ETHNICITY
13 / Ethnicity and Acculturation: Some Little Groups
PART 5. DEFAULT ETHNICITY: THE HAN