Blazing Pelts and Burning Passions
Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Spectacular Decommodification in Tibet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3666827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E T Yeh (0000-0002-4401-2404, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 319-344 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911812002227 |
| OpenAlex | W2102155111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 16 |
A few months after the fourteenth Dalai Lama stated at the Kalachakra Initiation Ceremony in India in January 2006 that Tibetans should cease wearing clothing lined with endangered animal skins, Tibetans across the Tibetan Plateau destroyed millions of yuan worth of otter, leopard, tiger, and other pelts. Outsiders' interpretations of these events have flattened out the complexity of participants' motivations, which included not only religious and national loyalty, but also concerns about inequality wrought by capitalist development, framed through a lens of modern Chinese history. This paper traces heated debates among Tibetans about the burnings, including their implications for Tibetans' global reputation, the survival of Tibetan culture, and the possibility of a moral economy in an era of deepening commodification. It also explores the embodied, visual, and performative elements of the burnings through participants' videos. The role of local filmmaking efforts in spreading the burnings makes the accompanying videos especially relevant
Art · Ballad · Ceremony · Commodification · Economy · Grassroots · Nationalism · Passions · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Tibetan identity and Tibetan Buddhism in trans-regional connection
Transnational environmentalism and entanglements of sovereignty
Contesting the Yellow Dragon
Precious Skin
Placing Asia in the Anthropocene
Non-violence as a Shifting Signifier on the Tibetan Plateau
Tibetan Buddhism, Wetland Transformation, and Environmentalism in Tibetan Pastoral Areas of Western China
The Compassionate Treatment of Animals
Closing the sub-frontier
Traditionalization as a response to state-induced development in rural Tibetan areas of Qinghai, PRC
Pema Tseden's The Search
Don’t discriminate against minority nationalities
Animal Representation in Alai’s Empty Mountains and the Role of Animals in the Remaking of Tibetan Identity and History in Contemporary Tibet
Introduction
Ecological Degradation and Endangered Ethnicities
Development as Entangled Knot
Fair Trade Coffee
The Violence of LiberationGender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
New Masters, New Servants
Monastic Politics and the Local State in China
New Revolts Against the System
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Emotions and affect in recent human geography
Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora
Moral Economy as Critique
Transnational environmentalism and entanglements of sovereignty
(De)commodification, Consumer Culture, and Moral Economy
Taking Butler Elsewhere
Corporeographies' of Pregnancy
Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |