The Battle for Fortune : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China /

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In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Makley, Charlene E., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tibetans > Social conditions.
Tibetans > Economic conditions.
Politics and government.
Ethnic relations.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Tibetan.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Tibetains > Chine > Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Tibetains > Chine > Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Tibetans > China > Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Tibetans > China > Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs > Social conditions > 21st century.
China > Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs.
Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs (China) > Politics and government > 21st century.
Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs (China) > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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