| Abstract | 第6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| 内容提要 | 第8-17页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第17-27页 |
| List of Figures | 第27-29页 |
| List of Tables | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第30-71页 |
| 1.1 Staged li and negotiated Miao identity | 第36-41页 |
| 1.2 Losing li in modern China | 第41-47页 |
| 1.2.1 Li was termed as cannibalism in the early 20th Century | 第41页 |
| 1.2.2 Li as feudalistic "Wind" still to be transformed in the 21~(st) Century | 第41-47页 |
| 1.3 Searching for li in the revival of Confucianism | 第47-48页 |
| 1.4 Li categorized as religion by the Western anthropologists | 第48-53页 |
| 1.5 Li as a mode of thinking | 第53-55页 |
| 1.6 Situating the study:representation of Miao ritual in West Hunan | 第55-66页 |
| 1.6.1 Writing Miao ritual in a Confucian perspective in 1758 | 第55-56页 |
| 1.6.2 Visual representation of Miao ritual in 1797 | 第56-58页 |
| 1.6.3 An ethnographic report in 1940 | 第58-62页 |
| 1.6.4 Miao ritual as religion and expression of identity | 第62-63页 |
| 1.6.5 Modern Chinese works on Miao ritual | 第63-66页 |
| 1.7 Structure of the thesis | 第66-71页 |
| Chapter 2 Entering the Field | 第71-97页 |
| 2.1 To be gossiped is to be accepted | 第72-78页 |
| 2.2 Doing fieldwork with my father | 第78-90页 |
| 2.2.1 Exchanging cigarettes | 第78-79页 |
| 2.2.2 Drinking alcohol | 第79-81页 |
| 2.2.3 A proud bowl | 第81-82页 |
| 2.2.4 Meeting my Miao Gandie and Ganma | 第82-84页 |
| 2.2.5 "Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Auspicious Omen" | 第84-87页 |
| 2.2.6 Fanning the odor away | 第87页 |
| 2.2.7 An explosion of cultural shock | 第87-89页 |
| 2.2.8 Learning li from the fieldwork | 第89-90页 |
| 2.3 Attending funerals | 第90-94页 |
| 2.4 Attending a "poor" girl's wedding | 第94-97页 |
| Chapter 3 Developing Indigenous Chinese Ethnography | 第97-138页 |
| 3.1 Dilemma in ethnography | 第97-102页 |
| 3.2 Chinese historiography as proto-ethnography | 第102-103页 |
| 3.3 Weaving authentic cultural fragments | 第103-111页 |
| 3.4 Narrative as heteroglossia dialogue | 第111-113页 |
| 3.5 In-depth descriptions of actions in Shiji | 第113-121页 |
| 3.6 Thick description in practices:five cases | 第121-133页 |
| 3.7 Ancient texts as a discourse to enlighten | 第133-137页 |
| 3.8 Coda | 第137-138页 |
| Chapter 4 Ritual Space | 第138-184页 |
| 4.1 The land and the people in Gouliang | 第140-144页 |
| 4.2 Local meanings in naming Gouliang | 第144-148页 |
| 4.3 Phoenix Hill and cat blood | 第148-153页 |
| 4.4 Domestic space as a loom | 第153-156页 |
| 4.5 Multiple meanings of tang | 第156-181页 |
| 4.5.1 Space for traditional Chinese learning | 第159-165页 |
| 4.5.2 Sacred space for worshipping ancestors | 第165-172页 |
| 4.5.3 Mourning space | 第172-176页 |
| 4.5.4 Image bricolages | 第176-177页 |
| 4.5.5 Reporting to the ancestors in wedding | 第177-179页 |
| 4.5.6 Washing feet in tang | 第179-181页 |
| 4.6 Coda | 第181-184页 |
| Chapter 5 Ritual Specialists | 第184-212页 |
| 5.1 Tradition of wizard culture | 第185-188页 |
| 5.2 Discursive division of Miao Ritualists and Han Ritualists | 第188-195页 |
| 5.3 The inherited ritual altar | 第195-203页 |
| 5.4 Ritualist in death ritual | 第203-205页 |
| 5.5 Ritualist Wu Zhangquan:loose belief and careful performance | 第205-209页 |
| 5.6 Ritualist Wu Jinzhi:observation of the filial piety | 第209-211页 |
| 5.7 Coda | 第211-212页 |
| Chapter 6 The Extreme Expression of Grief and Sorrow: Death Ritual | 第212-302页 |
| 6.1 Miao death ritual noted as features of ethnic identity | 第213-215页 |
| 6.2 Cultural hybridization in funeral rites | 第215-218页 |
| 6.3 Processes of funeral performance | 第218-260页 |
| 6.3.1 The first day | 第218-239页 |
| 6.3.2 The second day | 第239-247页 |
| 6.3.3 The third day | 第247-260页 |
| 6.4 Ritual performance of Ten Months' Pregnancy | 第260-279页 |
| 6.4.1 Textual analysis of Ten Months' Pregnancy | 第261-267页 |
| 6.4.2 In-depth description of the perf-ormances | 第267-279页 |
| 6.5 Mouming clothes | 第279-299页 |
| 6.5.1 Texture of mourning clothes in the perspective of Yili | 第282-287页 |
| 6.5.2 Hair stick,fillet,headdress,and mourning cane | 第287-299页 |
| 6.6 Coda | 第299-302页 |
| Chapter 7 Yang Goes out to Bring in Yin:Wedding Ritual | 第302-379页 |
| 7.1 The first day:the day Yang went out to bring Yin in | 第311-347页 |
| 7.1.1 Receiving the Bride(jie qin接亲) | 第311-317页 |
| 7.1.2 Blockings(ka ge 卡歌) | 第317-329页 |
| 7.1.3 Setting feast for the groom(she xu xi 设婿席) | 第329-334页 |
| 7.1.4 Sharing chicken head(fen ji tou分鸡头) | 第334-336页 |
| 7.1.5 Stepping out of Mother's Home(chu niang fang出娘房) | 第336-347页 |
| 7.2 The second day:the bride joined the groom's family | 第347-365页 |
| 7.2.1 The bride entered the groom's door(jin fu men 进夫门) | 第347-351页 |
| 7.2.2 Welcoming the guests in the tang(tang wu ying ke 堂屋迎客) | 第351-354页 |
| 7.2.3 Returning to the bride's natal home(hui men回门) | 第354-357页 |
| 7.2.4 Accompanying the daughter to her husband's home(pei nu hui fu jia 陪女回夫家） | 第357-361页 |
| 7.2.5 Set happy feast(she xi yan 设喜宴) | 第361-364页 |
| 7.2.6 Sing songs for the whole nioht(zuo ye chang miao ge 坐夜唱苗歌) | 第364-365页 |
| 7.3 The third day:paying bride's kinsmen and sending guests off | 第365-376页 |
| 7.3.1 Paying the money for mother's milk(gei nai qian 给奶钱) | 第365-372页 |
| 7.3.2 Seeing the guests off(san ke 散客) | 第372-376页 |
| 7.4 Coda | 第376-379页 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusion:Searching for the Confucian Tradition in the Field | 第379-395页 |
| 8.1 Li and Yue tradition in Miao's life | 第380-385页 |
| 8.2 Searching for the lost rituals in the field | 第385-389页 |
| 8.3 Wind and ritual:Viewing as transformative power | 第389-392页 |
| 8.4 Reflections | 第392-395页 |
| Appendices | 第395-506页 |
| References | 第506-519页 |
