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Women in Tibet: Past and Present 0231130996, 9780231130998
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JANET GYATSO HANNA HAVNEVIK editors
Women in Tibet
Columbia University Press New York
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors would like to express their appreciation to Michael Dwyer and Christopher Hurst for their initial impetus to produce a study on women in Tibet, and for their ongoing and generous support for this pub lication. We also thank all the contributors to the book, who were willing to draw on their extensive research and knowledge and to focus on the often elusive question of the history of women in Tibetan society. We are furthermore grateful to Charles Hallisey for perspicacious comments on the Introduction. The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo and the Divinity Sc
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