Review of and Reflection on the Overseas Studies of the Miao Nationality

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2019.03.009

Abstract

Abstract:

The early works of overseas studies of the Miao nationality were mainly influenced by colonialism and linguistic methods. During this period, the missionaries were the majorities conducting the researches. The first work on the Miao nationality, for example, was the French priest Francois-Marie Savina's Histoire des Miao. Later, the Miao studies became more and more diversified in terms of research methods, including anthropology. Anthropologists have become the main force in this stage. In addition, with the development of the Miao studies, local Miao scholars have also grown up and become the writers and researchers of the history of their own nationality. In this setting, how to understand the identity of the Miao nationality and the writing of its history has also become a problem that needs serious discussion.

Key words: studies of the Miao nationality, anthropology, philology, overseas Miao

Nicholas Tapp. Review of and Reflection on the Overseas Studies of the Miao Nationality[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph, 2019, 51(3): 92-98.

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