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Title: Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
Language of title: English
Editor: Frank J. Korom

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Contributor: Frank J. Korom
Peter Bishop
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Steven Venturino
Keila Diehl
Clare Harris
Mary Van Dyke
Publisher: World Heritage Press
Normalized publisher place: St-Hyacinthe, Quebec
Publisher country: Canada
Published Date: 1997
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Extent: viii, 230 p. : ill.
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Multi-Author Edited Volumes -- Thematic Volumes
Tibetan and Himalayan -- Society -- Identity Issues -- Tibetan Identity in Exile
Cultural Coverage: Tibet
Temporal coverage: 20th century CE
Language: English
Series Title: World Heritage Studies on Transnationalism and Multiculturalism

Table of Contents: "Lamaism" and the disappearance of Tibet / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- A landscape for dying: the Bardo Thodol and western fantasy / Peter Bishop -- Old age Tibet in new age America / Frank J. Korom -- Reading negotiations in Tibetan diaspora / Steven Venturino -- When Tibetan refugees rock, paradigms roll: echoes from Dharamsala's musical soundscape / Keila Diehl -- Struggling with Shangri-La: a Tibetan artist in exile / Clare Harris -- Grids and serpents: a Tibetan foundation ritual in Switzerland / Mary Van Dyke.
Format: Print media (print or manuscript, including PDFs)
Resource Type: Book (multiple authors)
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Date Of Record Creation: 2006-04-06 17:39:15
Date Last Modified: 2006-04-06 17:39:15
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