Rewriting Shangri-La : : Tibetan youth, migrations and literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / / by Heidi Swank.

In Rewriting Shangri-La: Migrations and Everyday Literacies among Tibetan Youth in McLeod Ganj, India , Heidi Swank examines differing histories of migration and exile through the lens of everyday literacies. The youth on whom this ethnography focuses live in a community that has long been romantici...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 34
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 34.
Physical Description:1 online resource (211 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 ‘Just Let Go of this Dream of Shangri-La’
  • 2 Youth Communities and Methodologies
  • 3 Theories of and in Practice
  • 4 ‘Come to Learn, Go to Serve’
  • 5 Learning to Serve and to Roam
  • 6 Writing Divisions
  • 7 Families In Exile and Across the Himalayas
  • 8 ‘Friends Like You Are Really Oscar Winner’
  • 9 Rewriting Shangri-La
  • References
  • Index.