Cultural Research

The languages of ethnic minorities are intimately bound up with their cultures, and so our members are also interested in studying the cultures of the groups where they live. This research includes investigations into the traditional customs of the people, collecting folk stories and proverbs, and writing ethnographic papers.

Examples of cultural research:

GEARY, Norman D., Ruth B. Geary, Ou Chaoquan et al. 2003. The Kam people of China: Turning nineteen. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

PINSON, Jacqueline S. 2006. What you can’t see is medicine: Naxi culture through American eyes/玉龙山下的村庄. (Zhao Qinglian and He Lifeng, trans.) Joint Publication Series Yunnan Minority Language Commission SIL International. Kunming: The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.

WANG Mingfu and Eric Johnson. 2008. 壮族文化遗产及壮语研究.Zhuang Cultural and Linguistic Heritage. Kunming: The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.

XIONG Lanping. Xangd Zos Touk (Book of reminiscence).Kunming,2008.ms.

XIONG Yuyou & Ethel Emily Wallis. (eds.) 2002. Hmongb lol ndrual laof ref (Hmong fables). Kunming: The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.