Declining Evenki 'Identities': Playing with loyalty in modern and contemporary China

International audience Officially recognized as a single ‘ethnic minority’ in the Chinese administrative system, Evenki groups belong to a distinctive geographical and cultural milieu. This case study analyses Evenki expressions of loyalty to state authorities and relation to changing identities in...

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Published in:History and Anthropology
Main Author: Dumont, Aurore
Other Authors: Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2017
Subjects:
China
Evenki
Identity
Loyalty
Ethnonyms
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
Online Access:https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02520204
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02520204/document
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02520204/file/Declining%20Evenki%20Identities%20Playing%20with%20loyalty%20in%20modern%20and%20contemporary%20China-Dumont.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2017.1351363
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Summary:International audience Officially recognized as a single ‘ethnic minority’ in the Chinese administrative system, Evenki groups belong to a distinctive geographical and cultural milieu. This case study analyses Evenki expressions of loyalty to state authorities and relation to changing identities in modern and contemporary China. What kinds of ‘loyalties’ did Evenki proffer to their rulers and/or neighbours? How did these flexible loyalties evolve, strengthen, or disappear over the decades? The first section explores how the Evenki’s multiple identities have been shaped over the last two centuries and how their loyalty shifted from one state authority to another and to one or several groups of people. In the second section, the constructed category of Evenki, intertwined with the evolving ‘identity’ formation, will be analysed through the prism of the everyday contemporary practices and discourses witnessed during ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2016.

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