Violence And Opposition Among The Nomads Of Amdo

Expectations Of Leadership And Religious Authority

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ID20044036
AuthorsFernanda Pirie (0000-0002-0856-704X, corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages217-240
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueConflict and social order in Tibet and inner Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004158177.i-274.82
OpenAlexW653163106
ISBN9789004158177
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In this paper author consider the demonstrative aspects of the violent behavior found among the Amdo nomads, their explicitly emotional responses to attack and injury and a seemingly irrational approval of certain practices of defiance. The anger that justifies violence must be expressed in the right way and in the right circumstances. It is part of a pattern of behavior expected of adult men, a self-conscious display of manhood. The nomads refer to these groups, which may consist of several thousand people, as dewa Where a completely new xiang has been created this has also come to be regarded as a dewa . The nomads' defiance is not an anti-state process, in the sense of negating the possibility of a state.This oppositional relationship is also exemplified in the relations between the nomads and their lamas , particularly evident in Machu, where they play an important role in conflict resolution. Keywords: Amdo nomads; anti-state process; conflict resolution; nomads and their lamas

Anger · Criminology · Demonstrative · Irrational number · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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