Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces : : Histories of Networking and Border Crossing / / ed. by Willem Schendel, Gunnel Cederlöf.

• Superior document: Asian Borderlands ; 15
• MitwirkendeR: Cederlöf, Gunnel,; Ludden, David,; May, Htoo,; Møller, Henrik Kloppenborg,; Pachuau, Joy L. K.,; Saikia, Arupjyoti,; Schendel, Willem van,; Than, Tharaphi,; Wouters, Jelle J. P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cederlöf, Gunnel,; Schendel, Willem,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Asian borderlands ; v.15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility am...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Flows and Frictions in Trans- Himalayan Spaces: An Introduction
• Prologue
• 2 Spatial History in Southern Asia: Mobility, Territoriality, and Religion
• A Long View
• 3 The Road Towards All under Heaven Cosmology: The Bazi Basin Society in West Yunnan
• 4 Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late-nineteenth Century Burma-China Borderlands
• 5 'Circulations' along the Indo-Burma Borderlands: Networks of Trade, Religion, and Identity
• 6 Flows and Fairs: The Eastern Himalayas and the British Empire
• Mobilities Today
• 7 How to Interpret a Lynching? Immigrant Flows, Ethnic Anxiety, and Sovereignty in Nagaland, Northeast India
• 8 Frictions and Opacities in the Myanmar-China Jade Trade
• 9 Multiple Identities of Young Sittwe Muslims and Becoming Rohingya
• Bibliography
• Index