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The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life: Fortune, Vitality, and the Mountain in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Col, Giovanni Da
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	centralized state homogenizing structures. This historical study analyzes the social force of markets and nature in the Songpan region in concert with the political and social conflicts and compromise at the heart of changing political regimes and the area's ethnic groups. It presents new perspectives on the social transformation and economies of Tibetans and Han Chinese from the late Qing Dynasty to Mao era and contemporary western This article presents some images and conceptual structures surrounding notions of fortune and luck among Dechen Tibetans in southwest China and reflects on the strategies for negotiating the integrity of persons and other 'social containers'. First, it analyzes the problem in separating the multifarious manifestations of fortune connected to the well-being and vitality of persons and households. Secondly, it examines the ethnographic concepts arising from the interface between fortune and sovereignty by illustrating the cosmological imagination surrounding contemporary state rituals focused on the cult of Mt. Khawa Karpo. Finally, musing on the relation between vitality, containership, and alterity, the article highlights how tracing the flows of fortune problematizes the divide between interiority and exteriority, or the question of where the outside and the inside of a being or a society begin. The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life
Starting Page	74
Ending Page	98
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	56
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://nemvat.com/hefo-d-g-voxus.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2012.560106
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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