{"product_id":"the-battle-for-fortune-charlene-makley-9781501719677","title":"The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlene Makley considers Tibetans' encounters with development projects as first and foremost a historically situated interpretive politics, in which people negotiate the presence or absence of moral and authoritative persons and their associated jurisdictions and powers. Because most Tibetans believe the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes, Makley also takes divine beings seriously, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, \"religious\" or \"premodern\" world. \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, therefore challenges readers to grasp the unique reality of Tibetans' values and fears in the face of their marginalization in China. Makley uses this approach to encourage a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlene Makley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150171967X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501719677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Charlene Makley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985271980287,"sku":"9781501719677","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_289e2c7b-d648-4861-9993-d2372e85ede7.jpg?v=1683276576","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-battle-for-fortune-charlene-makley-9781501719677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}