Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World

Katia Buffetrille

ISBN 10: 9004232176 / ISBN 13: 9789004232174

Published by Brill, NL, 2012

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Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia. This vast area has experienced significant changes following political and socio-cultural upheavals: the Chinese occupation of Tibet since the 1950s; the opening of Nepal to the world in 1951 and the influx of large numbers of Tibetan refugees into its territory; the end of the communist era and the transition to a market economy in Mongolia, and more generally the confrontation with modernity and globalisation. Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World examines the changes rituals have undergone and offers the reader the result of recent research based on both fieldwork and textual studies by researchers who have worked in these countries.Contributors include Hildegard Diemberger, Fabienne Jagou, Thierry Dodin, Fernanda Pirie, Nicola Schneider, Mireille Helffer, Alexander von Rospatt, Marie-Dominique Even, Robert Barnett, Katia Buffetrille.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004232176
• ISBN 13: 9789004232174
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 2.54H x 24.13D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 2.54 centimeters height by 24.13 centimeters depth
• Weight: 781 grams

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Synopsis

Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia… This vast area has experienced significant changes following political and socio-cultural upheavals: the Chinese occupation of Tibet since the 1950s; the opening of Nepal to the world in 1951 and the influx of large numbers of Tibetan refugees into its territory; the end of the communist era and the transition to a market economy in Mongolia, and more generally the confrontation with modernity and globalisation. Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World examines the changes rituals have undergone and offers the reader the result of recent research based on both fieldwork and textual studies by researchers who have worked in these countries.

Contributors include Hildegard Diemberger, Fabienne Jagou, Thierry Dodin, Fernanda Pirie, Nicola Schneider, Mireille Helffer, Alexander von Rospatt, Marie-Dominique Even, Robert Barnett, Katia Buffetrille

About the Author

Katia Buffetrille, Ph.D. (1996), Nanterre University, is fellow researcher at the École pratique des Hautes Études. She has published and edited several books and written many articles on Tibet including (with A.M. Blondeau) Authenticating Tibet. Answers to 100 China questions (University of California Press, 2008).