Research Catalog

Title

Goddess on the frontier : religion, ethnicity, and gender in southwest China / Megan Bryson.

Author

Bryson, Megan

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.

Details

Description

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Summary

This work follows the transformations of the goddess Baijie, a deity worshiped in the Dali region of southwest China's Yunnan Province, to understand how local identities developed in a Chinese frontier region from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.

Subject

• Baijie (Buddhist deity) > Cult > History
• Buddhist goddesses > China > Dali Baizu Zizhizhou > History
• Buddhism > China > Dali Baizu Zizhizhou > History
• Ethnicity > Religious aspects > Buddhism
• Bai (Chinese people) > Religion
• Dali Baizu Zizhizhou (China) > Religion

Note

• Previously issued in print: 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience (note)

• Specialized.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2017).

ISBN

9781503600454

OCLC

EDZ0001718776

Author

Bryson, Megan, author.

Title

Goddess on the frontier : religion, ethnicity, and gender in southwest China / Megan Bryson.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience

Specialized.

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