Sipsongpanna

Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders

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276th INTG Meeting – A Talk by Sara L. M. Davis “An exemplary study of cross-border culture. Davis’s original and deeply probing account of state-sponsored musical culture and of the musical practices that both transcend and subvert it deserves, like the music it depicts, to travel widely.“James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and … Read more

Chinese Views of Sipsongpanna

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69th INTG Meeting – A talk by Ann Hill Ann Hill discussed the various ethnic groups living in the Sipsongpanna [often written Xishuangbanna] region in southern China, with particular emphasis on: 1) stratification, 2) community, 3) kinship, 4) policy, and 5) relations with other states. She drew on extensive research from two people who have studied … Read more