Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas

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Martin, Emma, Brox, Trine 和 Lange, Diana (编): Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1522

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https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1522

ISBN 978-3-98887-015-5 (PDF)

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10/28/2025

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Emma Martin (Hrsg.), Trine Brox (Hrsg.), Diana Lange (Hrsg.)

Among Tibetan Materialities

Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas

Among Tibetan Materialities makes an intervention into Tibetan studies by critically engaging with material culture. It opens up new sources, methodologies and frameworks for studying, thinking and writing about material culture, materials and materiality in Tibet and the Himalayas. It highlights novel ways that Tibetan and Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Spanning historical and contemporary contexts this collection of ongoing research disrupts current approaches to Tibetan and Himalayan materiality by considering socially constructed materiality and the materials constituting things, from their conception and production to their end of life and afterlife.

Emma Martin, Ph.D. (2014), SOAS (University of London), is Senior Lecturer of Museology at the University of Manchester. Her research and curation sit at the intersection of colonialism(s), Tibetan studies, museum activism, and material culture studies and moves between contemporary museum practice in Tibetan exile contexts and historical research on Tibetan materiality in British colonial archives.

Trine Brox, Ph.D. (2009), University of Copenhagen, is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She has written extensively about Tibetan worlds and specializes in contemporary Tibetan Buddhism with topics such as aesthetics, materials and materiality, consumption and waste.

Diana Lange, Ph.D. (2008), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is Professor of History and Cultures of Central Asia at that university and a principal investigator at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. Her research is focused on the history of knowledge and exploration, material and visual culture studies, cartography, and cultural interactions.

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Titelei

i-iv

Contents

v-vi

List of Illustrations

vii-xi

Tsering Yangzom Lama

1 Feeling, knowing, interpreting

On Tibetan lives and objects

1-12

Trine Brox, Emma Martin, Diana Lange

2 Introduction

Materials, materiality and material culture

13-40

Mridul Surbhi, Jan M. A. van der Valk

3 Ritualized meshworks in landscape and pharmacy

Harvest and production alongside amchi from Spiti and Kinnaur

41-64

Mark Stevenson

4 Miraculous display

Temporal and collaborative materializations in Tibetan Buddhist butter art

65-91

Trine Brox

5 The afterlives of Tibetan Buddhist material objects

93-112

Agnieszka Helman-Ważny

6 What makes ‘Tibetan paper’ Tibetan?

Understanding the materiality of Tibetan paper

113-146

Diana Lange, Oliver Hahn

7 Materials and materiality as keys to understanding a map of Mount Kailash

147-175

Emma Martin

8 Recovering Barmiok Lama, Tibetan material knowledge and a Himalayan ‘scene of collecting’

177-206

Stuti Singh, Barbara Gerke

9 Menjor tools and the artisanal epistemology of making Sowa Rigpa medicines in Spiti

207-237

Mareike Wulff

10 Communicating Visual Literacy through Drawing

Illustrations of National Dress, Buddhist Monastic and Ritual Attire in Bhutan

239-264

Katia Thomas

11 Materializing Buddhist care through conservation at a Sikkim museum

265-290

Dendup Chophel

12 The material poetics and politics of the patag

Bhutan’s ceremonial sword as a heroic artefact

291-322

Gokul KS, Sonika Gupta

13 Loga’s gau in Dreaming Lhasa

Film objects as narrative devices in contemporary Tibetan cinema

323-343

Barbara Gerke

14 Postscript

Weaving Materials into Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

345-354

Emma Martin, Trine Brox, Diana Lange

15 Critical Tibetan Studies

A Turn to Materiality

355-365

Backcover

Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing