ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Cultural Revolution

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Jennifer Liu

Document Summary

Most populous: indonesia ~ 202 million people [largest amount in contemporary nation] Most middle eastern states have around 30million muslims. Same amount of muslims in china like in middle eastern states. Because of religious identity as muslims, they are grouped as such. Separated from rest of chinese because they don"t eat pork [marks their huizu status] Sometimes marked as huizu status when ancestors are foreign. Turkic, historically lived in north west china. Preserve their culture by marrying within own group. Cultural revolution: young chinese people destroyed things in community that was related to holding china back from modern culture.