Changing Hidden Ethnic Relationship under Non-Timber Forest Products Flow in Transition to Market Economy: Case from Jinuo Community, Southern Yunnan Province, China

Abstract

"Economic power is the strongest power impressing on human society and nature during social construction process. Non-timber forest products are a typical case, which connect human society and environment to gender and nature and expose the hidden ethnic relationship behind the Non-timber forest products flow. A case study of Bakaxiazhai, a Jinuo community and its three brother-villages, Dai villages was carried out in order to examine this constructing process."