AT TIBETOLOGY, A TALK FROM OXFORD ABOUT GREETINGS FROM
DARJEELING: Dr. Clare Harris, Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology and
Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the Oxford
University, delivered an engaging talk on, “Greetings from Darjeeling: Hill
Stations, Tourism and Photography in late nineteenth/early 20th century British
India”, here at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology today. Dr. Harris, who made
time from her family holiday in the hills to deliver the talk, also provided a
brief introduction to “The Tibet Album”, a website and research tool featuring
six thousand historic photographs of Tibet. The talk was followed by an
interactive session which saw some interesting ideas being exchanged. Dr.
Harris, who has produced four books to date, her latest being “The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art,
Politics and the Representation of Tibet”, shared that she plans to build
today’s talk into a deeper research.
