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Waste and Sacredness: The Nature and Cultural Conception of Solid Waste in the Tibetan Areas in Southwest China
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Waste and Sacredness: The Nature and Cultural Conception of Solid Waste in the Tibetan Areas in Southwest China. |
| 개인저자 | Wang, Bo. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. Anthropology. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2017. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017. |
| 형태사항 | 203 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-06B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392673713 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: B.
Advisor: Zhou, Yongming. |
| 이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
| 요약 | China's explosive tourist boom has made solid waste the greatest challenge on the Tibetan "sacred" mountains in the Himalayas, especially recyclable plastic drinking bottles and metal cans. While Western scientific waste sorting and recycling prevails in China and around the world, the understanding of waste alternative to fast waste disposal is undermined. It is rather uncertain whether it is wise to prioritize recycling facilities over Buddhist prayer stones on the presumed sacred mountains to minimize waste. Although the logistics and costs of waste may be well calculated by the science of waste management, the cultural notion of waste and the dynamics between notions of waste and sacredness remain obscure. This obscurity invites cultural anthropologists to tease out the cultural work that prepares people for relating to waste and to each other. Thus, this research project explores how Tibetan people living near the sacred mountains and urban space conceptualize waste based on their dynamic understanding of people, deities, and materials from animistic and Tibetan Buddhist views and from pragmatic engagements with waste management rules. Specifically, it fleshes out the understanding of waste among Tibetans, Han Chinese tourists, and government officials as they live in, tour around, and manage the sacred landscape. By a juxtaposition of the three, it ultimately reveals how culturally dynamic and rich conceptions of dirt and sacredness come into being in the social life of waste to link people with their own and each other's lifeworld. Its findings include: (1) old clothes on sacred paths are considered persons whereas plastic bottles are considered solid waste |
| 일반주제명 | Cultural anthropology. Asian studies. Environmental management. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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