Dungan literature: comments on the concept of folk

Soledad Jimnez Tovar

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Halle(Saale), Germany
For decades, Dungan people have been portrayed by scholars as cultural living fossils. In this sense,
Dungans seem to preserve Qing-Chinese culture. However, beyond compilations of folklore and
ethnographic accounts that emphasise such Chinese-ness, there is not that much that has been done in
order to contest such assumptions. This paper is meant as a provocation to the audience in the sense
that it focuses in the very concept of folk and, taking Dungan case as an example, advocates for
overcoming colonising approaches in the understanding of culture(s).
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