"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
Please note that the above details were correct on the day this post was published. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
"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
Please note that the above details were correct on the day this post was published. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com
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