TY  - BOOK
AU  - Makley,Charlene
TI  - The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China 
T2  - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SN  - 9781501719660
AV  - DS797.82.R43 M34 2018
U1  - 951.5 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Tibetans
KW  - China
KW  - Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Reb-goṅ Gser-mo-ljoṅs
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - General Economics
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Note on Language --; Introduction: Olympic Time and Dilemmas of Development in China's Tibet --; Chapter 1. The Dangers of the Gift Master --; Chapter 2. The Mountain Deity and the State --; Chapter 3. Othering Spaces, Cementing Treasure --; Chapter 4. The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch --; Chapter 5. Spectacular Compassion --; Epilogue: The Kindly Solemn Face of the Female Buddha --; Notes --; References --; Index --; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.Charlene Makley considers Tibetans' encounters with development projects as first and foremost a historically situated interpretive politics, in which people negotiate the presence or absence of moral and authoritative persons and their associated jurisdictions and powers. Because most Tibetans believe the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes, Makley also takes divine beings seriously, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, "religious" or "premodern" world. The Battle for Fortune, therefore challenges readers to grasp the unique reality of Tibetans' values and fears in the face of their marginalization in China. Makley uses this approach to encourage a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501719653?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501719653
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501719653/original
ER  -