Tom Neuhaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 4420072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Neuhaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuhaus |
| SIGNATURE | NEUHAUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Derby |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0806-1241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diligent Germans with a Thirst for Knowledge? Emil Schlagintweit, German Orientalism, and Nineteenth-Century Tibetology
This article examines the work of Emil Schlagintweit (1835–1904), one of Germany's most prominent nineteenth-century Tibetologists in order to challenge some common assumptions regarding Orientalist scholarship and its relationship to nineteenth-century nationalism and imperialism. Schlagintweit began to work on Tibetan religion and language in the wake of an expedition led by three of his brothers in the 1850s, and his work can provide important…
Lost Horizons
Tibet and its surrounding areas have become known to Western audiences either as a remote and mystical realm of fantasies or as the location of a bitter conflict between an oppressive China and a long-suffering local population. This dichotomy is reflected clearly in the way in which the travel industry advertises Tibet to tourists. The website of the Rough Guides introduces the area by referring to its contemporary fate: With its spellbinding sc…
Ethnography, Knowledge and Orientalism
Francis Younghusband, the leader of the British military mission to Tibet in 1903–04, perceived the indigenous people of the country he had invaded as both possessing certain positive qualities and as severely lacking others. In his 1910 history of relations between India, Tibet and Britain he wrote: Summarizing the characteristics of the Tibetans, we may say, then, that while they are affable outwardly and crafty within, as most dependent people…
Tibet in the Western Imagination
Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures
Tibet in the Western Imagination
Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures
Ethnography, Knowledge and Orientalism
Francis Younghusband, the leader of the British military mission to Tibet in 1903–04, perceived the indigenous people of the country he had invaded as both possessing certain positive qualities and as severely lacking others. In his 1910 history of relations between India, Tibet and Britain he wrote: Summarizing the characteristics of the Tibetans, we may say, then, that while they are affable outwardly and crafty within, as most dependent people…
Tibet in the Western Imagination
Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both Tibet and their home cultures
Lost Horizons
Tibet and its surrounding areas have become known to Western audiences either as a remote and mystical realm of fantasies or as the location of a bitter conflict between an oppressive China and a long-suffering local population. This dichotomy is reflected clearly in the way in which the travel industry advertises Tibet to tourists. The website of the Rough Guides introduces the area by referring to its contemporary fate: With its spellbinding sc…
Diligent Germans with a Thirst for Knowledge? Emil Schlagintweit, German Orientalism, and Nineteenth-Century Tibetology
This article examines the work of Emil Schlagintweit (1835–1904), one of Germany's most prominent nineteenth-century Tibetologists in order to challenge some common assumptions regarding Orientalist scholarship and its relationship to nineteenth-century nationalism and imperialism. Schlagintweit began to work on Tibetan religion and language in the wake of an expedition led by three of his brothers in the 1850s, and his work can provide important…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Orientalism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)