Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgments
Part One: Origins
1. Growing up Half Yi / Bamo Ayi
2. In the Shadow of the Han / Ma Lunzy
3. A White Guy Discovers Anthropology / Stevan Harrell
Part Two: China
4. Yinchang: My First Fieldwork, 1987-88 / Bamo Ayi
5. Getting Started in Southwest China, 1987-88 / Stevan Harrell
6. Chasing after Bimo, 1992-93 / Bamo Ayi
7. Getting Started Again, 1991 / Stevan Harrell
8. First Contact, 1991 / Ma Lunzy
9. Almost Real Fieldwork, 1993 / Stevan Harrell
10. In the Month of the Snake , 1993 / Ma Lunzy
11. Fieldwork with Muga, 1994 / Bamo Ayi
12. Getting Further Implicated, 1994 / Stevan Harrell
13. The Last Time I Led the Horse, 1994 / Ma Lunzy
14. The Bimo in the Modern World, 1994-95 / Bamo Ayi
Part Three: America
15. The First International Yi Conference, 1995 / Ma Lunzy
16. Seattle First Free Methodist Church, 1996-97 / Bamo Ayi
17. Collecting Mountain Patterns, 1999 / Ma Lunzy
18. Conceptualizing Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Bamo Qubumo
19. Celebrating Mountain Patterns, 2000 / Stevan Harrell
Epilogue: Fieldwork Connections and the Process of Ethnography / Stevan Harrell
Cast of Characters
Chinese and Nuosu Glossary
Bibliography
Index