The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone.
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, live, an...
| Publicado en: | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 68; no. 5/6; pp. 540 - 567 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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