The Age of Wild Ghosts
memory, violence, and place in southwest china
$127.37
- Hardcover
514 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2023
Summary
Echoes of the Famine: Memory, Community, and the Haunting of China’s Margins
In Erik Mueggler’s powerful ethnography, an Indigenous community in the mountains of Southwest China grapples with its place on the fringes of a nation. The era spanning the Great Leap Famine (1958-1960) to the 1990s is remembered as the “age of wild ghosts.”
These narratives converge on a dream of community—a nightmare, embodied in the life, death, and spectral resurgence of a local political and r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798887191324 |
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| Author: | Erik Mueggler, Aleksei Kamenskii |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
| Imprint: | Academic Studies Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 514 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Erik Mueggler
Erik Mueggler is an anthropologist and historian based at University of Michigan, who has worked with Indigenous peoples in Southwest China for many years. The Age of Wild Ghosts was his first book; others include The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet and Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text and World in Southwest China. He is currently finishing a book titled The Book of Cunning and Treachery: Writing, Sovereignty, and Bondage in a Qing Indigenous Domain. His work has received many honors and awards, including a Macarthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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