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The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet (Buddhism and Modernity)
Clare Harris
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Description for The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet (Buddhism and Modernity)
Paperback. Begins with the British public's first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. This book examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition; the Dalai Lama, spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This ... Read more
For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition; the Dalai Lama, spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Buddhism and Modernity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226213170
SKU
V9780226213170
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About Clare Harris
Clare E. Harris is a reader in visual anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, curator for Asian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. She is the author of In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959.
Reviews for The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet (Buddhism and Modernity)
A highly readable discussion of the ways in which political power has shaped perceptions of Tibet and its material culture, and how contemporary Tibetans are appropriating the 'soft power' of art as a political tool.... Highly recommened. (Choice)