Animals in the religion and culture of the Tibetan Plateau
Parution du nouveau numéro d’Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (n° 50, 2019) sur OpenEdition Journals. Préparé sous la direction de Geoffrey Barstow, il a pour thème : “Animals in the religion and culture of the Tibetan Plateau”.
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Présentation
This issue has its origins in a pair of conference panels, one at the 2014 meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and the other at the 2016 meeting of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. These panels sought to bring together a diverse set of perspectives on the complex role that animals play in Tibetan religion and culture, a goal that is taken up by this issue of Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines. As it is elsewhere in the world, the relationship between humans and animals in Tibet is complex and informs human culture in a multiplicity of ways. Appropriately, then, the articles in this issue approach the place of animals in Tibetan culture from a wide variety of perspectives, ranging from the utilitarian to the symbolic to the moral. More than any single topic or theoretical approach, it is the diversity in the papers collected here that provides real insight into the complex tensions that surround humans’ relationship with animals on the Tibetan Plateau […]
(Geoffrey Barstow, Introduction)
Sommaire
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (25 mars 2019). Animals in the religion and culture of the Tibetan Plateau. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 4 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mr38