Translating Tibet in the Borderlands: Networks, Dictionaries, and Knowledge Production in Himalayan Hill Stations

  • Emma Martin (Autor/in)

    Emma Martin is Lecturer in Museology at the University of Manchester and Head of Ethnology at the National Museums in Liverpool, UK. She received her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2014 for her thesis, “Charles Bell’s collection of ‘curios:’ Negotiating Tibetan material culture on the Anglo-Tibetan borderlands, 1900–1945.”

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Abstract

British India’s imperial projects took a “Tibetan turn” in the hill-stations of Darjeeling and Kalimpong in the late nineteenth century. These small, tightly packed places were global pinch points that offered a multitude of people, including British officers, Scottish missionaries, explorers from Japan, Germany, Mongolia, and plains India, Ukrainian spiritual seekers, and monastic scholars from across Tibet and the Himalayas, an opportunity to collaborate. By using the products of these scholarly encounters—namely the turn of the century volumes written in Darjeeling on the subject of Tibet—it is possible to trace out a series of entangled networks active in these spaces. It also becomes clear that the business of translating Tibet was not necessarily done in Tibet itself, but in the borderlands of British India, a process made possible by highly mobile people who had travelled and lived in this otherwise “out of bounds” place.

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Veröffentlicht
2016-07-21
Sprache
en
Akademisches Fachgebiet und Untergebiete
Museology, Ethnology
Schlagworte
Tibet, Knowledge Production, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Scholarly Networks, Philology
Zitationsvorschlag
Martin, E. (2016). Translating Tibet in the Borderlands: Networks, Dictionaries, and Knowledge Production in Himalayan Hill Stations. The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 7(1), 86–120. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.23538