China's 'Tibetan' Frontiers Sharing the Contested Ground |
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| Author:
| Meriam, Beth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-906876-30-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2010 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $151.95 |
Book Description:
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This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of 'ethnic' China's changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a 'Tibetan' autonomous area. This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice.
This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of 'ethnic' China's changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a 'Tibetan' autonomous area. This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice.