List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Maps
A Note: On Personal Names and on the Transcription of Jie Words
Personal Names and Places and Some Common Words
Introduction
Part I
Chapter One: Jie Past and Present: Ecology, Economy, Guns, and State
Chapter Two: Ethnography of Storytelling
Part II
Chapter Three Patterns and Images of Historical Tradition
Chapter Four: The Jie Landscaper, Memory, and Historical Tradition
Chapter Five: Historical Tradition and Poetic Persuasion of Pastness
Part III
Chapter Six: The Return of Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
Chapter Seven: The Significance of Nayeche and the Grey Bull Engiro Oral Tradition in a Jie Storyteller’s Autobiography
Conclusion
Part IV
The Stories
Bibliography
Notes