AHP 40: Review: CHIEFTAINS INTO ANCESTORS

This essay collection is a must-have for everyone interested in the history of empire and in what we may call the social consequences of empire. It presents a highly sophisticated set of essays on Chinese imperial expansion as seen from the perspective of local peoples in what today is Southwest China. It explores how they were historically drawn into the Chinese imperial project and negotiated this challenge through their own systems of social reproduction through gender and kinship; their economy; their concepts of history and identity deployed in genealogy and mythology and so on. ..