This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics.

Foreword by Stevan Harrell
Preface
Acknowledgments
On Language and Orthography
Map of Research Area in Southwest China
Map of Bustling Township
Introduction
1. Muli: The Political Integration of a Lama Kingdom
2. Bustling Township: A Muli Township in the Post-Mao Era
3. The Premi House: Ritual and Relatedness
4. Premi Cosmology: Ritual and the State
5. Modernity in Yunnan: Religion and the Pumizu
Conclusion
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Koen Wellens is a researcher in the China Program of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo.