The battle for fortune : : state-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China / / Charlene Makley.
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| Superior document: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.