The Elementary Economies of Dechenwa Life: Fortune, Vitality, and the Mountain in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.

This article presents some images and conceptual structures surrounding notions of fortune and luck among Dechen Tibetans in southwest China and reflects on the strategies for negotiating the integrity of persons and other 'social containers'. First, it analyzes the problem in separating the multifa...

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Publicado en:Social Analysis Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 74 - 99
Autor principal: Col, Giovanni da
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Berghahn Books Spring2012
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