The Battle for Fortune by Charlene Makley

The Battle for Fortune by Charlene Makley

In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of...

Charlene Makley's The Battle for Fortune, the latest contribution to contemporary Tibetan studies, is a laudable accomplishment of her long years of ethnographic work with Tibetan communities in Qinghai Province.. Overall, the book is a wellwritten dialogic ethnography—a solid addition to scholarship on the region as well as testament to consequences of modernization in a Tibetan region.

* American Anthropologist *

This book foregrounds the worth of anthropological-qualitative research in studying development issues in China and elsewhere. Moreover, it promises a hope for anthropology with regards to its humanistic touch.

* The China Quarterly *

Charlene Makley's The Battle for Fortune is a timely and insightful study of the long-term influence of development and urbanization on village society in contemporary eastern Tibet

-- Andrew Grant, University of Boulder, Colorado * Himalaya *

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology in the Anthropology Department, Reed College. She is author of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China.

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ISBN 13	9781501719677
ISBN 10	150171967X
Title	The Battle for Fortune
Author	Charlene Makley
Series	Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2018-05-15
Number of pages	348
Prizes	Runner-up for E. Gene Smith Book Prize (Inner Asia) 2020 (United States)
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