ABSTRACT Colonial ethnographers employed certain categories for classification, invariably picked from neighbouring communities, to identify the people they studied. As a result, such categories have ‘regional’ connotations, depending upon the routes taken while entering their territory. This article examines how various local group identities were formed across clans and lineage identities, and argues that such identities have directional, locational and dynastic connotations. These identities may be characterized mainly as etic categories of description, as they were given to them by others. The article argues that the failure of colonial categorizations to subsume a cultural entity in its entirety has engendered the resurgence of the Zo identity, which is a self-ascriptive identity considered through emic perspective for the cultural collectivity referred to as Kuki-Chin by colonial ethnographers. This article examines the contestation between the resurgence of a self-ascriptive identity, the Zo identity, and the etic categorizations adopted by the colonial ethnographers.

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etic 分类和主位分类的争论：Zo 族裔民族认同在印缅边境地区的复兴

摘要 殖民地民族志学家采用某些类别进行分类，总是从邻近社区中挑选出来，以识别他们研究的人。因此，这些类别具有“区域”含义，具体取决于进入其领土时所采取的路线。本文考察了各种地方群体身份是如何跨氏族和宗族身份形成的，并认为这些身份具有方向性、位置性和王朝内涵。这些身份可能主要被表征为描述的 etic 类别，因为它们是由其他人赋予的。这篇文章认为，殖民分类未能完全包含一个文化实体，导致了佐身份的复兴，这是被殖民民族志学家称为 Kuki-Chin 的文化集体，通过主位视角考虑的自我归属身份。本文考察了自我归属的身份、Zo 身份和殖民民族志学者所采用的 etic 分类的复兴之间的争论。