Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora ─ Voices of Difference

Klieger (anthropology, California Academy of Sciences) presents ten papers that represent a portion of the papers that were given at the June 2000 seminar (other papers appear in nine other volumes). The papers explore modern Tibetan self-expression in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and in the wider diaspora. Topics include the tourist marketing of the area of Dharamsala, the Chinese language poetry of Tibetan Ye dam Tshe ring, Tibetan autobiography, and religious expressions of Tibetan nationalism. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

P. Christiaan Klieger, Ph.D., is Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is the author of Tibetan Nationalism (1992) and Tibet-o-Rama: Self and Other in a Tale from the Edge of Tibet (2002) and interested in Tibetans in the homeland and abroad on the theme of self-identity construction. Currently he is researching the peoples on the edge of the greater Tibetan cultural area, specifically in northern-most Myanmar (Burma) among the Rawang peoples.