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Title Conflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia / edited by Fernanda Pirie, Toni Huber
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages)
Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 21
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 21.
Contents Introduction / Fernanda Pirie and Toni Huber -- Conflict and the Cultural Revolution : the Nyemo Ani incident of 1969 / Melvyn C. Goldstein -- Display and performance in Mongolian cultural campaigns / Ines Stolpe -- Competing factions and elite power : political conflict in inner Mongolia / David Sneath -- The politics of memory : gender, autobiography and Maoist violence in Amdo / Charlene Makley -- Religion and conflict over land in the republic of Altai : is there a difference between building a shrine and creating a nature park? / Agnieszka Halemba -- The Muslim cook, the Tibetan client, his Lama and their boycott : modern religious discourses of anti-Muslim economic activism in Amdo / Andrew Martin Fischer -- Apparitions of Red Horse : narratives of destruction in Bodongpa monasteries in central Tibet / Jill Sudbury -- Violence and opposition among the nomads of Amdo : expectations of leadership and religious authority / Fernanda Pirie -- When brothers separate : conflict and mediation within polyandrous houses in central Tibet / Heidi Fjeld
Summary Revolution and social dislocation under the communist regimes of China and the Soviet Union, followed by the upheavals of reform and modernisation, have been experienced by Tibetan, Mongolian and Siberian people, forcibly integrated into these nation states, as conflict, violence and social disruption. This volume, bringing together case studies from throughout the region, assesses the experiences and legacies of such events. Highlighting the agency of those who shape and manipulate conflict and social order and their historical, cultural and religious resources, the editors discuss evidence o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social structure -- Asia, Central -- Case studies
Social structure -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Case studies
Social conflict -- Asia, Central -- Case studies
Social conflict -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social conflict
Social conditions
Social structure
Gesellschaft
Politischer Konflikt
Sozialstruktur
SUBJECT Asia, Central -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Subject Central Asia
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet
Zentralasien
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Pirie, Fernanda, 1964-
Huber, Toni, 1956-
ISBN 9789047442592
9047442598
1283060442
9781283060448
9786613060440
6613060445