The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone
Abstract This article investigates how the cultural politics of ethnoreligious belonging play out through everyday aesthetic practices at a market for Tibetan Buddhist objects in Chengdu, China – a multiethnic place that is perceived and experienced as “Tibetan” by the Tibetans and Chinese who work,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 540-566 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Chengdu
/ Religious pluralism
/ Lamaism
/ Religious identity
/ Ethnic identity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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Authenticity
B aesthetic habitus B Buddhism B Tibet B ethnoreligious belonging B cultural survival |
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