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The cultural politics of ethnic identity in Xishuangbanna, China: tea and rubber as "cash crops" and "commodities"
Die Kulturpolitik der ethnischen Identität in Xishuangbanna, China: Tee und Kautschuk als "Feldfrüchte für den Export" und "Handelsgüter"
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Abstract
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx’s commodity fetish and Polly Hill’s critique of “cash ... mehr
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx’s commodity fetish and Polly Hill’s critique of “cash crops”, this paper analyses the cultural politics of ethnicity for Akha and Dai farmers in relation to tea and rubber. When the prefecture government introduces “cash crops”, the state retains its authority as the dispenser of knowledge, crops and modernity. When tea and rubber become commodities, however, some of the symbolic value of the commodity seems to stick to farmers, making rubber farmers “modern” and tea farmers “ethnic” in new ways. Through rising incomes and enhanced identities, Akha and Dai farmers unsettle stereotypes of themselves as “backward”. As a result of income levels matching those of urban middle-class residents, rubber farmers even challenge the prevalent social hierarchy.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
China; Entwicklungspolitik; Landwirtschaft; Armutsbekämpfung; Produktion; Handel; Export; Einkommen; Landwirt; sozialer Status; Modernisierung; ethnische Gruppe; Minderheit; Kulturpolitik; Ostasien
Klassifikation
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
rubber; tea; Xishuangbanna; cultural politics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 109-131
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41 (2012) 4
Heftthema
The politics of ethnicity in China
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung