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In the Circle of White Stones : Moving Through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

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In the Circle of White Stones : Moving Through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

In the Circle of White Stones :
Moving Through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

by Gillian G. Tan
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0295999489 | 174 Pages | PDF | 14 MB

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan's story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community's powerful relationship with a Buddhist lama and their interactions with external agents of change. In showing how they perceive their environment and dwell in their world, Tan conveys a spare beauty that honors the stillness and rhythms of nomadic life.

"Gillian Tan's beautifully written, collaborative ethnography offers us a succession of luminous insights into the lives and livelihoods of nomadic Tibetan pastoralists. Favoring intimate narrative accounts of quotidian existence over sweeping generalizations about the economic, religious, and political forces at play in Dora Karmo, Tan succeeds brilliantly in capturing the subtle interplay of continuity and discontinuity in a lifeworld that has always been, in one way or another, on the move." - Michael D. Jackson, author of As Wide as the World is Wide: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology