| Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the Iats, 2000. Volume 9: Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas Contributor(s): Buffetrille, Katia (Editor), Diemberger, Hildegard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004125973 ISBN-13: 9789004125971 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: French Published: April 2002 Annotation: Which places does Tibet include? Are people Tibetan merely because of living in those places? Territory and Identity are notions that are widely present in academic and popular discourses on Tibet. In 1992 a group of French and Austrian researchers who had studied some of the mountain deities and sacred landscapes of Tibet began meeting to discuss the links between territory and identity in Tibetan culture. Eight years later an interdisciplinary group of scholars met in Leiden in Holland to consider these questions in more detail. This book contains some of their findings, based on case studies carried out across the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. The authors look at the role of local deities, kinship, economy, politics and administration using approaches from across the social sciences to try to work out how a community constructs and reconstructs its idea of itself, and how its members think about and are affected by the land on which they were reared. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 954.96 |
| LCCN: 2002511064 |
| Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Proceedings of the Ninth S |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.66" W x 9.78" (1.74 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Which places does Tibet include? Are people Tibetan merely because of living in those places? Territory and Identity are notions that are widely present in academic and popular discourses on Tibet. In 1992 a group of French and Austrian researchers who had studied some of the mountain deities and sacred landscapes of Tibet began meeting to discuss the links between territory and identity in Tibetan culture. Eight years later an interdisciplinary group of scholars met in Leiden in Holland to consider these questions in more detail. This book contains some of their findings, based on case studies carried out across the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. The authors look at the role of local deities, kinship, economy, politics and administration using approaches from across the social sciences to try to work out how a community constructs and reconstructs its idea of itself, and how its members think about and are affected by the land on which they were reared. |