Tibetan Modernities
by Barnett, Robert; Schwartz, RonaldFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-02-15
Publisher(s): Brill Academic Pub
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Summary
This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth and environment in Tibetan communities today.
Table of Contents
| Maps and illustrations | |
| Introduction: Tibet and Modernity | p. 1 |
| Modernisation and Social Change | |
| Modernity, Memory and Agricultural Modernisation in Central Tibet, 1950-1980 | p. 37 |
| The Flow of Wealth in Golok Pastoralist Society: Towards an Assessment of Local Financial Resources for Economic Development | p. 73 |
| Pollution and Social Networks in Contemporary Rural Tibet | p. 113 |
| Embodying the Nation: Childbirth in Contemporary Tibet | p. 139 |
| The Pedagogy of Modernity | |
| Imaginaries of Ladakhi Modernity | p. 165 |
| Schooling and 'Quality Education' in the Tibetan Diaspora and Tibet | p. 189 |
| A Preliminary Note on Chinese Codeswitching in Modern Lhasa Tibetan | p. 213 |
| Two Artists on Contemporary Art and Cinema | |
| Twentieth Century Tibetan Painting | p. 251 |
| Reflections on Tibetan Film | p. 267 |
| New Media, New Public Space | |
| Dancing to the Beat of Modernity: the Rise and Development of Tibetan Pop Music | p. 285 |
| Blue Lake: Tibetan Popular Music, Place and Fantasies of the Nation | p. 305 |
| Newtibet.com: Citizenship as Agency in a Virtual Tibetan Public | p. 333 |
| Authenticity, Secrecy and Public Space: Chen Kuiyuan and Representations of the Panchen Lama Reincarnation Dispute of 1995 | p. 353 |
| Books and Dissertations on 20th Century Tibet | p. 423 |
| Contributors | p. 437 |
| Index | p. 441 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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