From The Historical Memory Of The Strange Tribe Ho Ho Strange Tribe Identity Construction

This thesis is to discuss the historical changes of the Hooqid East Banner of Xilin Gol League (which becomes now a part of West Ujimqin Banner of Xilin Gol League) by analyzing the national identity and collective historical memory of this tribe (ethnic group) from the perspective of cultural anthropology. The Hooqid East Banner originally was a large part of the Hooqid tribe of the Mongol Empire, which was divided into two parts as East Hooqid and West Hooqid in the early Qing Dynasty. With the progress of history, the Hooqid East Banner was integrated into the West Ujimqin Banner, ending its300years’ tradition, in the1950s. Since then, the Hooqid East Banner does not exist in the form of a single administrative region. Now only more than3,000people remain in this region and were distributed into9villages of Jirin Gol town in the West Ujimqin Banner.Mainly based on the collection of historical documents and ethnographic fieldworks, this thesis analyzes the particular cultural phenomenon of the Hooqid people, including their restoration of the ancient temples, their recovery of traditional Oboo sacrifice ceremony as well as their persistence on the traditional cultural heritage and practices, and aims at exploring the national identity and collective historical memory of the Hooqid people.This thesis consists of5parts, including an introduction, the main body (4chapters), a conclusion, references and appendix. The introduction makes a brief introduction to the need of the study, the significance of the study, and research method as well as literature review of the object. The main body mainly discusses the following contents:the first part describes the historical background of the formation of the Hooqid tribe, and accounts the origin of the name of the Hooqid tribe and the disappearance of their tribal organization system duo to their twice large-scale migration during the period of Qing Dynasty. The second part tries to discuss that the Hooqid people has been reconstructing their national identities and collective historical memories by the means of restoring the ancient temples and traditional Oboo sacrifice ceremony, etc. The third part mainly writes about the local diary food of Hooqid people and the management of "The Hooqid Diary Food Cooperatives" in order to discuss the reproduction as well as the making methods of Hooqid diary food, and people’s acceptance of Hooqid diary food. The fourth part explores the life style, the change of folk traditions, and the collective Hooqid identity and historical memory of the Hooqid people, taking the Hogjil Gaca as an example. Based on the above discussion, the conclusion part comes up with the researcher’s ideas on this study. And the relevant information and pictures are provided at the last pages.