TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tan,Gillian G.
TI  - In the circle of white stones: moving through seasons with nomads of eastern Tibet 
T2  - Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
SN  - 9780295999494
AV  - DS786 .T33 2017eb
U1  - 305.9/0691809515 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Tan, Gillian G.
KW  - Nomads
KW  - Tibetan Plateau
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Seasons
KW  - Pastoral systems
KW  - Buddhists
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Nomades
KW  - Tibet, Plateau du
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Saisons
KW  - Pastoralisme
KW  - Bouddhistes
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - China
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Travel
KW  - Nomade
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Descriptions et voyages
KW  - Relations interethniques
KW  - Plateau of Tibet
KW  - Tibet
KW  - Ost
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Getting to Dora Karmo -- The house and the tent -- Life in the summer pasture -- A world of impermanence -- The Lama -- Leaving and arriving
N2  - "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; This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan's story, based on her 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. In showing how they perceive their environment and dwell in their world, Tan conveys a spare beauty that honors the stillness and rhythms of nomadic life
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