Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet

Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61451-562-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Religion and Society

Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smyer Yü, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Über Autor(innen)

Smyer Yü, Yunnan Minzu University, Centre of Trans-Himalayan Studies, Chenggong, China.

Smyer Yü, Yunnan Minzu University, Centre of Trans-Himalayan Studies, Chenggong, China.