Comments on: the religion and ecology of the blang minority nationality

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:45:36 +0000

Dear Prof. Miller, Actually I was just chatting with Prof. Ding Hong from Minzu Daxue last night about that conference. She was here visiting this weekend. Not sure if I’ll be able to attend in March but I definitely look forward to hearing more about the research from all the participants. I also have a few papers in the works which I’d be happy to send your way in fair trade Enjoy your time in Beijing!

Sincerely,
Eddie Schmitt
Department of Anthropology
Chinese University of Hong Kong

By: James Miller

James Miller — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:36:20 +0000

Thanks, Eddie. I will definitely call you when I’m in Hong Kong next! My research assistant (from Minzu daxue) and I will be presenting a paper on this soon. I’ll send you a copy for your comments!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:34:39 +0000

Hi James,
Excellent work, I’ll look forward to hearing more about the historical changes in agricultural production amongst the Blang and how it may have impacted their religious practices (or vice versa). It will also be interesting to see if the commodification processes from tea production interact differently compared to the rubber plantations that Janet Sturgeon examined with regard to the Dai and Akha living in the region. If you ever stop through HK please drop me a note. I work on a very similar topic with the Ersu, Nuosu and Han in Sichuan.

Sincerely,
Eddie Schmitt
Department of Anthropology
Chinese University of Hong Kong

By: John Grim

John Grim — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:23:33 +0000

Thank you, James, for this fine statement on current Blang practices related to religion and ecology. I tried to email the article to myself and could not get the security code to register. I wanted to have my students in “Indigenous Religions and Ecology” to have this information.