Plate 4 Miao in Guizhou, China.
There are more than 9 million
Miao in China, the fifth largest
of China’s official 56 minzu
(nationalities). This is more
than Uighurs (8 million) and
Tibetans (5.4 million), though all
are overshadowed by the 1.16
billion Han (see pp. 111–115).Plate 5 Ram Lila performance,
Mumbai. “Ram Lila” is a folk
reenactment of the Ramayana
story where actors play all the
main roles and scenes may
move around a number of sites.
Afterward, the actors are revered
as the gods they are portraying.
Here, Ram, Sita, and Hanuman
are worshipped at the end of a
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