Research on the Oral History of Women from the Xi Jiang Miao Ethnic Group

Author: Zhang Xiao
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Publish Date: 1997-10-01
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This is a woman's anthropology book that takes the oral history of Western Jiang Miao women in Qiandongnan as its research subject. The author comes from Western Jiang and is a female Miao researcher. She has crafted this book with her unique advantages, exclusive materials, as well as her passion and sincere attitude. The book uses a typical Miao village as a research case, employs participatory observation and interviews as its methodology, and takes women's oral history as an entry point. It studies the interactive relationship between a specific group of women and cultural systems within a particular community context. The book demonstrates how culture shapes people and how people create culture, presenting a dynamic, vivid, and regionally rich specimen of women's culture.