Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Cultural and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9789004155220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 458 str.

International Association for Tibetan Studies; Robert Barnett; Ronald Schwartz

Opis

This is the first major publication in the West to study the modernity and its impact on contemporary Tibet. Based on field work by researchers from the fields of anthropology, sociology, environmental science, literature, art and linguistics, it presents essays on education, economics, childbirth, environment, caste, pop music, media and painting in Tibetan communities today. The findings emerge from studies carried out in Ladakh, Golok, Lhasa, Xining, Shigatse and other areas of the Tibetan world. It will provide important and sometimes surprising results for students of Tibet, China, Himalayan studies, as well as an important contribution to our understandings of modernity and development in the modern world.