The view from Somewhen: Events, bodies and the perspective of fortune around Khawa Karpo, a Tibetan sacred mountain in Yunnan Province

Inner Asia

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-235

  Da Col, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodies; Cosmological mobility; Equivocation; Events; Forces; Fortune luck; Instability; Temporality; Yunnan Tibetans

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL TRADITION; RELIGION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KHAWA KARPO; XIZANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 39649093875     PISSN: 14648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/146481707793646548     Document Type: Article

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