The Battle for Fortune : : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China / / Charlene Makley.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©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 (348 p.) :; 26 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 1 diagram |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Language
- Introduction: Olympic Time and Dilemmas of Development in China's Tibet
- Chapter 1. The Dangers of the Gift Master
- Chapter 2. The Mountain Deity and the State
- Chapter 3. Othering Spaces, Cementing Treasure
- Chapter 4. The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch
- Chapter 5. Spectacular Compassion
- Epilogue: The Kindly Solemn Face of the Female Buddha
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University