The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China (Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) - 9781501719646
Cornell University Press
ISBN13:
9781501719646
$148.26
Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet -- The dangers of the gift master -- The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village -- Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school -- The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village -- Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead -- Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha
- | Author: Charlene E. Makley
- | Publisher: Cornell University Press
- | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 348 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1501719645
- | ISBN-13: 9781501719646
- Author:
- Charlene E. Makley
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:
- May 15, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 348 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1501719645
- ISBN-13:
- 9781501719646