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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Tibetans"”.
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The Tibetan diaspora and the politics of belonging in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Tibetans in the American diaspora express their identity in different ways. A good proportion of them emphasise the need for the renewal of Tibetan culture in danger of being lost and political engagement as a means of cultural resurgence. The new emerging identities of the Tibetans who have …
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… of China and the exiled Tibet. For individual Tibetans on the ground, the small pieces and specific details in everyday life dominate their thoughts and reduce the national motions and political propagandas into the torrent of everyday ordinariness. Conducting the one-year ethnography on …
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Exile, transnational connections, and the construction of identity : Tibetan immigrants in Montreal
… the processes through which a small group of Tibetans in Montreal constructs a sense of community identity in exile. I argue that membership in the extended, transnational organization, the Tibet Movement, provides the framework within which these processes take place. The incorporation of …
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Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora
… of a legacy of exotification of Tibet and Tibetans, Tibetan studies scholars have argued for a certain instrumental internalisation of romantic Western portrayals by Tibetans. Exemplifying this perspective, Lopez worries that Tibetans have been forced to perpetuate limiting orientalist …
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‘The good parent’: education, modernity, and ethnicity in Western China
… faced by Han Chinese, the ethnic majority, and Tibetans. This study demonstrates that local navigations of state discourses and systems are attempts to learn modernity in local social-historical contexts. In particular, parents’ navigations of state schooling are ‘practices of the self’ which …
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Programmed emptiness : research infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau
… people, and goods, but not actually modern, as Tibetans have generally been forced to the sidelines in the development of Tibet, serving more as indigenous tourist attractions than active participants in the shaping of a modern culture. The resulting condition is a present day state that is at …
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The reshaped Buddhist cosmos: a study of the iconography of the main chamber of Cave 45, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang
… the oasis town of Dunhuang was taken over by the Tibetans in 781. Icons of beloved bodhisattvas, Guanyin and Dizang, were introduced into the cave at the request of new donors. These late additions modified the overall visual plan of the main shrine, in terms of its color scheme and Buddhist …
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Human population history and genetic adaptation in the Himalayan region
… an extinct hominin species (Denisovans) into Tibetans. However, functional studies of EPAS1 variants have not been systematically carried out and it is still unknown which variant(s) are responsible for high altitude adaptation and their mechanism of action. I used both in silico and in vitro …
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From Display of Force to Normalization: Exploring the Transformation of Power in China
In the period since Tiananmen the People's Republic of China has deployed new controlling mechanisms in society to better integrate minorities. These mechanisms of control are more subtle and use elements of discipline, panopticism, and bio-power; rather than the spectacle of power associated with …
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An analysis of the rights of minorities in international law
… of Sri Lanka, the Biharis of Bangladesh, the Tibetans of China, the Catholics of Northern Ireland, the non-Arab indigenous Africans of Southern Sudan, and protagonists in civil wars of the fonner Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, reveals the widespread nature of the conflict. While a number of …
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Respect and power without resistance: investigations of interpersonal relations among the Deed Mongols
… belief, lifestyle, and sometimes language with Tibetans, for instance the Deed Mongols in Henan Mongol Autonomous Xian in Huangnan Zhou. There are also some who have adopted the Chinese language and converted to Islam in the nOlth of Haibei Zhou. However, Deed Mongols in Haixi, Hainan and Haibei …
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Teacher learning in a Tibetan school in exile: A community of practice perspective
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