Prince Peter's 7 years in Kalimpong: Collecting in a Contact Zone
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Prince Peter's 7 years in Kalimpong : Collecting in a Contact Zone. / Brox, Trine; Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard.
Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a ‘Contact Zone’. red. / Markus Viehbeck. Heidelberg press, 2017. s. 245-272.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Prince Peter's 7 years in Kalimpong
T2 - Collecting in a Contact Zone
AU - Brox, Trine
AU - Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The main protagonist of this paper is H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980), an old-world ethnographer and explorer who went to Kalimpong in the 1950s, first as a member and later as the leader of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. The expedition’s aims were to explore and document empty spots on the map and to rescue the remnants of local cultures in Upper Asia. With the developing crisis in Tibet, however, Prince Peter was stranded in Kalimpong, waiting in vain for permission to enter Tibet. Yet unfavourable political circumstances turned into great opportunities for the expedition as the advance of the People’s Liberation Army into Tibet led to a stream of refugees into Kalimpong: “We had been denied entry into Tibet, but Tibet had come to us.” In this article, we explore Prince Peter’s seven years in Kalimpong and how he navigated this particularly intense contact zone, negotiating difficult political, personal, and professional circumstances.
AB - The main protagonist of this paper is H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980), an old-world ethnographer and explorer who went to Kalimpong in the 1950s, first as a member and later as the leader of the Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia. The expedition’s aims were to explore and document empty spots on the map and to rescue the remnants of local cultures in Upper Asia. With the developing crisis in Tibet, however, Prince Peter was stranded in Kalimpong, waiting in vain for permission to enter Tibet. Yet unfavourable political circumstances turned into great opportunities for the expedition as the advance of the People’s Liberation Army into Tibet led to a stream of refugees into Kalimpong: “We had been denied entry into Tibet, but Tibet had come to us.” In this article, we explore Prince Peter’s seven years in Kalimpong and how he navigated this particularly intense contact zone, negotiating difficult political, personal, and professional circumstances.
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 245
EP - 272
BT - Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands
A2 - Viehbeck, Markus
PB - Heidelberg press
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