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For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a 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 book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British publics first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Publisher : Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date : 13 November 2014
Edition : Reprint
Language : English
Print length : 314 pages
ISBN-10 : 022621317X
ISBN-13 : 978-0226213170
Item Weight : 635 g
Dimensions : 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm
Country of Origin : India
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Part of series : Buddhism and Modernity
Best Sellers Rank: #535,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #60 in Museums & Museology #1,199 in Theory & Criticism #1,242 in Buddhism (Books)
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