Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

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Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9789048531714
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction. Trans-Himalayas as Multistate Margins
  4. I. Territory, Worldviews, and Power Through Time
  5. 1. Adjusting Livelihood Structure in the Southeast Asian Massif
  6. 2. The Properties of Territory in Nepalā€™s State of Transformation
  7. 3. Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Secularities. Sino-Indian Geopolitics of Territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface
  8. 4. Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways. Materials and Technologies Connecting People and Ecological Environments in a Transnational Landscape
  9. 5. Seeking Chinaā€™s Back Door. On English Handkerchiefs and Global Local Markets in the Early Nineteenth Century
  10. II. Livelihood Reconstructions, Flows, and Trans- Himalayan Modernities
  11. 6. Contested Modernities. Place, Subjectivity, and Himalayan Dam Infrastructures
  12. 7. Plurality and Plasticity of Everyday Humanitarianism in the Karen Conflict
  13. 8. Being Modern. Livelihood Reconstruction among Land-lost Peasants in Chenggong (Kunming)
  14. 9. Tibetan Wine Production, Taste of Place, and Regional Niche Identities in Shangri-La, China
  15. 10. Tea and Merit. Landscape Making in the Ritual Lives of the Deā€™ang People in Western Yunnan
  16. 11. In-between Poppy and Rubber Fields. Experimenting a Transborder Livelihood among the Akha in the Northwestern Frontier of Laos
  17. 12. A Fortuitous Frontier Opportunity. Cardamom Livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
  18. Conclusion. Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Studies
  19. Index