Loss Of "god" In The Community And Its Reconstruction

The Jingpo ethnic minority is one of the eight "direct transition nationalities" in Yunnan Province, China. This thesis provides a case study of Bangyang, a Jingpo village around Ruili city, Dehong Dais & Jingpos Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture. This work investigates the ways in which different manifestations of "modernization" have affected the social and cultural landscape in Jingpo. It looks particularly at the processes through which the traditional authorities of Jingpo people—Mountain Leaders and Priests ( Dong Sa)—have undergone a transition whereby their status as cultural producers and leaders is lost, and the Jingpo communities lose "God"—traditional ethnic culture, belief, social organization, as well as the maintainers.The thesis shows two vicissitude that Jingpo communities have experienced since 1950s: The first change is the Democratic Reform, which brings forth the countryside collective life that has the similarity with the life of traditional Jingpo communities; The second change is the Reform and Open Policy and the market economy, which thoroughly subverts the community culture and organizational forms of Jingpo ethnic minority. Under the new resource distribution principle and the competition system, Jingpo ethnic minority people have been stripped from their cultural matrix, thus in the aspects of politics, economy and...