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Modernization in Eastern Tibet

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Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality.Including cases centred on meteorology, geography, and seismology, the book assesses a wide range of traditional local activities, including foraging, farming, and domestic practices, and argues that and demonstrates how science, technology, and ideas about modernity have all influenced these activities.

It highlights that when inconsistencies among different knowledges emerge, modernization can create inconsistent assemblages of modern and traditional practices and reveal the multiplicity of everyday life.Using these examples of everyday life to portray the complexity of day-to-day existence in Tibet, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Tibet, China, human geography, anthropology, and the sociology of science and technology.

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ISBN: 9781032590837
Publication date:
Author: Su Hu
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 126 pages
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Genres: Sociology
Anthropology
Regional / International studies
Human geography
Regional geography
Society and culture: general
Politics and government

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