TIBETBLOGS.COM - Feeds

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16 Jun 2008

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Self-description: "Tibet Blogs displays blog updates from tibetan bloggers and serves as an online directory for tibet related weblogs. If you run a blog site, feel free to Add Your Blog to our directory."

Site contents:
* Recently Updated Blogs [Jun 14/15th 2008] (Jun 15 - False Flag Fenqing: Menace or Myth? - Angry Chinese Blogger, Jun 15 - Do they protest too much? - RFA Unplugged, Jun 15 - Video: Man Claims to Be Spy during Flushing March - Boycott 2008 Games, Jun 15 - Religion - Refuge of the Weak and Powerless? - Thoughts From The Hat, Jun 15 - Biography of Marcher: Shingza Rinpoche - Tibet Will Be Free, Jun 15 - Biography of Marcher: Shingza Rinpoche - Tibetan Uprising, Jun 14 - Recycle To Raise Awareness on World Refugee Day - Precious Metal, Jun 14 - China human rights website founder kidnapped by police in earthquake capital city - China View, Jun 14 - [blank headline] - Grupo de Apoio ao Tibete, Jun 14 - Best Online Dharma Videos - Lotsawa House, Jun 14 - Gordon Brown must meet the Dalai Lama at Downing Street - SFT UK - From London to Lhasa, Jun 14 - Small Protests Met With Big Force - Agam's Gecko, Jun 14 - Lufer fr Team Tibet gesucht! - Tibet News in German);

* Current Headlines [Jun14-15th 2008, News powered by Phayul.com]
(China clampdown for Olympic torch in Xinjiang: residents, exiles; Nepal police break up Tibet protests, 182 held; Evans gears up for a free Tibet tour; Tibetan exiles protest outside UN office in Kathmandu);

* Blog Directory
(Human Rights Watch; Tibetan Studies Resources; Tibet Sites Blog; Boycott 2008; The Soul of Tibet; Tibet Toons; Life on The Tibetan Plateau; Sft Canada; Mark Winwood; Tibetan Bridges; The Secret Tibet; Tibetan Altar; Tibet Mirrow; SFT France; Voice of Ambition; Tibetan Technology; SFT Madison; Global-drokpa; Tibeto-logic; Tibet Will Be Free; Travels in Tibet; Jigtenmig; Tibet Talk; Yingsel2008; Dalai Lama Blog; Tashiling Potala Fc; Good Speaks in a Whisper; Early Tibet; Nyamrup; Buddhist Studies Weblog; Beijing Wide Open; The Tibet Connection; China Spy; Tibetan Vanguard; Lotsawa House; Jonangpa; Tibetspace; Echoes in Exile; Voice For Tibet; SFT , Delhi; Yale Free Tibet Society; Die 4 Tibet; RFAUnplugged; China View; The Interdependent; Precious Metal; Free Tibet; Windhorse Blog; Tshering's Blog; Friends of Tibet; Global Voices; Agam's Gecko; Free Tibet Campaign; Tibetan Uprising; Campaign Tibet; Tricycle Editor's Blog; Essential Spirit; Paradise Now; Boycott 2008 Games; Boycott Beijing 08; Angry Chinese Blogger; SFT UK - From London To Lhasa; Crafted Resistance; B B Chi; Tibet Information Office - Australia; Meyul: in Exile; Human Rights Torch Relay; Kadfly; Chinese Occupation of Tibet; Jamyang Norbu; Tibet News in German; Thoughts From The Hat; Kuala Lumpur For a Free Tibet; Yak Butter Tea; American Buddhist Net; Tsering Woeser's Blog; Aqua's Dreamscapes; Tibettruth's Podcast; Bob Thurman Podcast; Grupo De Apoio Ao Tibete; Molaganji);

* Forums; * Events; * About Tibet (Marginalisation and exclusion, Religion and culture, Political repression, Environment); * Shop.

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Plateau [Tibetan, Naxi and Pumi] Music Project

http://www.plateaumusicproject.org

13 Jun 2008

Plateau [Tibetan, Naxi and Pumi] Music Project

Gerald Roche, Nationalities Department, Qinghai Education College, Xining, Qinghai, PRC

Self-description:
"The Tibetan Endangered Music Project was founded in order to preserve endangered songs on the Tibetan Plateau. Most of this music will disappear in the next decade. Our members, all local volunteers from the English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University, Qinghai Province, PR China, have since 2005 recorded more than five hundred Tibetan traditional songs. Beginning in late 2007, our project expanded to record endangered songs of other ethnic minority groups such as the Naxi and Pumi ethnicities in China's Yunnan Province. To reflect this new diversity, we have changed our name to the Plateau Music Project."

Supplied note:
"We are pleased to announce that the Plateau Music Project has two more posts on our website. One post contains a paper in English and Chinese, introducing the history, methods and achievements of the project. The other post contains three songs recorded by one of our members from Mianning County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Suchuan Province, PR China. - tm."

Site contents [in Jun 2008]:
* Songs recorded by Luodu Aga; * The Plateau Music Project: Grass-roots Cultural Preservation on the Tibetan Plateau [a paper by Tsering Bum and Gerald Roche]; * Welcome to the Plateau Music Project;

[A tri-lingual (EN, CN, TIB) site - ed.]

URL http://www.plateaumusicproject.org/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Tibetan Music (tibetanmusic--at--gmail.com)

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http://www.plateaumusicproject.org
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:16:57 +0800
From: "Tibetan Music" (tibetanmusic--at--gmail.com)
Subject: Plateau Music Project
Dear friends,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Plateau Music Project website. We will be updating our webpage regularly, featuring text, audio, and video about our work. All entries are in English, Tibetan and Chinese.

We welcome comments and suggestions from you to make our better.

To see the website, please follow the link below:
www.plateaumusicproject.org

To donate to our project, please follow the link below:
http://www.givemeaning.com/project/plateaumusic

Sincerely

Tsering Bum
Project Officer
Plateau Music Project

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"Life and Marriage in Skya rgya, a Tibetan Village," 2008.

Volume one of a new series of six volumes of Tibetan ethnography is just published.

"Life and Marriage in Skya rgya, a Tibetan Village" [2008, by Blo brtan rdo rje with Charles Kevin Stuart, New York: YBK Publishers, Inc.] is ethnographic research presented in autobiographical format by Blo brtan rdo rje. His candid rendering of the details of his family life and his experiences conducting field research is a compulsively readable account of life in a rural Tibetan culture that is vanishing. This snapshot of the last days of Tibetan village life before its integration into a commercial economy and the national educational system are invaluable.

The careful attention to the entire social course of courtship and marriage, and the recording of attending songs and speeches, makes this book of enduring value for students of Tibetan culture, ethnomusicology, and kinship.

By offering the unfiltered and largely uninterpreted voices of four village residents speaking on the deeply entangled and embodied meanings of marriage, this book also presents a polyphonic view on the reproduction of social life.

To view the table of contents and to read excerpts from the book please go to http://www.qurl.com/2thwp where you can also purchase the book for shipment anywhere in the world.

If you want to be sure to be notified when the remaining five volumes in the series are published, please go to

http://www.yourbookpublisher.com/bookorder.htm

Enter your name and email address (other information is optional) and we will notify you as they are published.

Thank you.

YBK Publishers, Inc.
39 Crosby St.
New York, NY 10013

http://www.ybkpublishers.com

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Seeing Tibetan Art Through Social Tags

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mannion/mannion.html
04 Jun 2008

Archives & Museum Informatics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Self-description:
"Mannion, S., Seeing Tibetan Art Through Social Tags, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2008: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Published March 31, 2008.
Abstract: Most current efforts in social tagging by museums focus on how to improve public access to on-line collections. Indeed, tags do supplement existing documentation by providing an alternative vocabulary to describe works of art. But what can tags tell us about how images are perceived? Are the same images perceived differently by viewers from diverse cultures? Taking its cue from the Steve Project's (http://steve.museum) research agenda, an ongoing study funded by the Rubin Museum of Art explores what tags reveal about the ways native communities respond to their own cultural iconography. Begun in March 2007, the study is collecting tags on Tibetan artworks from Tibetans and Westerners in Switzerland and New York on a customized steve installation (http://www.seeingtibetanart.org).
Preliminary findings based on the Swiss data reveal: 1) different tagging and viewing patterns among Tibetans and Westerners; 2) complex and often awkward feelings young Tibetans experience when viewing traditional artworks; 3) clearly discernible levels of cultural pervasiveness of traditional images; and 4) shared misunderstandings about specific types of images. [...] Keywords: social tagging, tags, native communities, diaspora, Tibetan Buddhist art, perception, mixed methods."

Site contents:
* Abstract; * Museums and the Tibetan Community: A Reciprocal Relationship; * Seeing Tibetan Art Through Social Tags; * Mixed Methods Research Design; * Selected Artworks; * The Tagging Platform; * Data Collection in Native Communities; * Demographic Profile of Participants; * Preliminary Findings; * Tagging and Viewing Patterns; * Tagger Agreement; * Cultural Pervasiveness of Traditional Images; * Implications and Conclusions; * Acknowledgements; * References.
[In 2007 Shelley Mannion was a graduate student, TEC-CH program, University of Lugano, Switzerland. Steve Project, founded in 2005, is "a collaboration of museum professionals and others who believe that social tagging may provide profound new ways to describe and access museum collections and encourage visitor enagement with museum objects." - ed.].

URL http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/mannion/mannion.html

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Link reported by: Shelley Mannion (shelley.mannion--at--gmail.com)

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