Trans-Himalayan Borderlands : : Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities /

Trans-Himalayan Borderlands : : Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities / / Dan Smyer Yu; ed. by Jean Michaud.

The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods, and capital reshape the livelihoods of communiti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
VerfasserIn:
Smyer Yu, Dan,
MitwirkendeR:
Cederlöf, Gunnel,
Cheng, Yang,
Diemberger, Hildegard,
Drew, Georgina,
Galipeau, Brendan A.,
Horstmann, Alexander,
Michaud, Jean,
Quanmin, Li,
Shneiderman, Sara,
Turner, Sarah,
Yunxia, Li,
Yü, Dan Smyer,
TeilnehmendeR:
Harris, Tina.
Schendel, Willem.
HerausgeberIn:
Michaud, Jean,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Asian Borderlands
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.) :; 30 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Trans-Himalayas as Multistate Margins
  • I. Territory, Worldviews, and Power Through Time
  • 1. Adjusting Livelihood Structure in the Southeast Asian Massif
  • 2. The Properties of Territory in Nepal's State of Transformation
  • 3. Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Secularities. Sino-Indian Geopolitics of Territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface
  • 4. Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways. Materials and Technologies Connecting People and Ecological Environments in a Transnational Landscape
  • 5. Seeking China's Back Door. On English Handkerchiefs and Global Local Markets in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • II. Livelihood Reconstructions, Flows, and Trans- Himalayan Modernities
  • 6. Contested Modernities. Place, Subjectivity, and Himalayan Dam Infrastructures
  • 7. Plurality and Plasticity of Everyday Humanitarianism in the Karen Conflict
  • 8. Being Modern. Livelihood Reconstruction among Land-lost Peasants in Chenggong (Kunming)
  • 9. Tibetan Wine Production, Taste of Place, and Regional Niche Identities in Shangri-La, China
  • 10. Tea and Merit. Landscape Making in the Ritual Lives of the De'ang People in Western Yunnan
  • 11. In-between Poppy and Rubber Fields. Experimenting a Transborder Livelihood among the Akha in the Northwestern Frontier of Laos
  • 12. A Fortuitous Frontier Opportunity. Cardamom Livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
  • Conclusion. Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Studies
  • Index

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