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The battle for fortune : state-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China
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- Creator
- Charlene Makley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 324 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1501719645, 9781501719677, 1501719653, 9781501719653, 150171967X, 1501719661, 9781501719646, 9781501719660
- OCLC
- on1002043957, on1031964227, on1002302942
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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