Vinogradova T. [Review:] A Ritual for Expelling Ghosts: a Religious Classic of the Yi Nationality in the Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan. Taipei: Taipei Ricci Institute, 1998, v-xxx, pp. 613, colour photographs // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 5. No. 3. September 1999. P. 70—72.
The Yi (Yizu) are one of the peoples who populate the
south of China. Seven million Yizu live compactly in the
south-west provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou.
The Yizu language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmese family of
languages and has its own script. Yizu is an ancient people.
Already in the third-sixth centuries, the Chinese singled
out among the natives of the Yangtze river basin the man
barbarians, a part of whom were apparently the ancestors of
the Yizu. Among the non-Han peoples who lived in the state
ofNanzhao in the eighth-ninth centuries, were also ancient
Yizu. The history of the Yizu was a constant struggle with
the ethnic Han Chinese for survival, national self-identification,
and the preservation of their own culture...
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