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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Tan, Gillian G.
Titre(s) : In the circle of white stones [Texte imprimé] : moving through seasons with nomads of eastern Tibet / Gillian G. Tan
Publication : Seattle : University of Washington Press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxiv-147 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Studies on ethnic groups in China
Lien à la collection : Studies on ethnic groups in China
Comprend : Foreword / by Stevan Harrell ; Transcription, transliteration, and names ; The
people ; Timeline ; Getting to Dora Karmo ; The house and the tent ; Life in the
summer pasture ; A world of impermanence ; The Lama ; Leaving and arriving ; Glossary.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 141-144
"In this ethnographic narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau, anthropologist
Gillian Tan describes the life-worlds of Tibetan nomads in a region traditionally
known as Kham. The people of Dora Karmo (Circle of White Stones) are pastoralists
who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture and depend on the milk production
of their herd for sustenance. Tan's story, based her on own experience of living through
seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the
community's powerful relationship with a Buddhist lama and their interactions with
external agents of change. As Buddhists, they believe in the never-ending cycle of
life and death through reincarnation. Death, then, is not regarded as permanent loss
but as the opportunity for continual change. Portrayals of personal loss through natural
causes and revenge feuds, as well as sky burials, illustrate how impermanence permeates
daily life. These pastoralists have adapted since 1959 to conditions imposed by the
Chinese state through a combination of acquiescence, strategy, and resistance. They
have also started to participate in the markets of a rapidly modernizing China, and
in projects of international development that originate outside their own belief systems
and social structures. In showing how the people of Dora Karmo perceive their environment
and dwell in their world, Tan calls on development agents to consider this different
worldview before they initiate projects among and for nomads"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Ethnologie -- Tibet, Plateau du (Chine)
Nomades -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Tibet, Plateau du (Chine)
Moeurs et coutumes -- Tibet, Plateau du (Chine)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780295999470. - ISBN 0295999470. - ISBN 9780295999487. - ISBN 0295999489
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453223294
Notice n° :
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