Stevan Harrell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and Acting Curator of Asian Ethnology at the Burke Museum. He is author of the forthcoming Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (2000), Human Families (1997) and Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan (1982). He is also co-editor of Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China (2000), with Bamo Qubumo and Ma Erzi. His edited volumes include Chinese Historical Microdemography (California, 1995) and Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993, coedited with Deborah Davis).

• List of Tables, Maps, and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction, by Stevan Harrell PART ONE: The Yi in History 1. Reconstructing Yi History from Yi Records, by Wu Gu 2. Nzymo as Seen in Some Yi Classical Books, by Wu Jingzhong PART TWO: Nuosu Society in Liangshan 3. A Comparative Approach to Lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han, by Ann Maxwell Hill and Eric Diehl 4. Preferential Bilateral-Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan, by Lu Hui 5. Names and Genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan, by Ma Erzi 6. Homicide and Homicide Cases in Old Liangshan, by Qubi Shimei and Ma Erzi 7. Searching for the Heroic Age of the Yi People of Liangshan, by Liu Yu 8. On the Nature and Transmission of Bimo Knowledge in Liangshan, by Bamo Ayi PART THREE: Yi Society in Yunnan 9. The Cold Funeral of the Nisu Yi, by Li Yongxiang 10. A Valley-House: Remembering a Yi Headmanship by Erik Mueggler 11. Native Place and Ethnic Relations in Lunan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, by Margaret Byrne Swain PART FOUR: The Yi Today 12. Language Policy for the Yi, by David Bradley 13. Nationalities Conflict and Ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with Special Reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, by Thomas Heberer 14. Education and Ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi, by Martin Schoenhals 15. Nuosu Women's Economic Role in Ninglang, Yunnan, under the Reforms, by Wu Ga (Vugashynyumo Luovu) 16. The Yi Health Care System in Liangshan and Chuxiong, by Xiaoxing Liu References List of Contributors Index