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The battle for fortune : state-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China / Charlene Makley.

Author/creator Makley, Charlene E., 1964-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other formPrint version: Makley, Charlene E., 1964- author. Battle for fortune Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501719646
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017040967
ISBN9781501719653 (pdf)
ISBN9781501719660 (epub/mobi)

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