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This talk traces the articulation of two regimes of written signs with living and dead bodies in a chiefly lineage in Qing China. During the nineteenth century, the Nuo chiefly lineage of northern Yunnan struggled to retain its hereditary rights over the land and people. Writing was central to this effort. After the death of the chief Nuo Xianzong, his adoptive heir used a Chinese-language diary to follow parallel flows of food and words through the chiefly house, attempting to trace the house’s complex circulatory system, to reveal whether it would would absorb him, spit him out, or kill him. In another scriptive regime, texts in the Nasu script of the Yi language were used to make and copy an ancestral body for the dead chief. These texts were recited as copies of the ritual field.

MIÉRCOLES 22 DE MAYO 2019

16:00 A 18:00


Organiza

Centro de Estudios de Asia y África

Lugar

Salón 2243

El Colegio de México


Temas

China, sureste de China, Antropología cultural


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