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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian BorderlandsPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) : 30 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9789462981928
  • 9789048531714
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.96
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 communities, pulling them into global trends of modernization and regional discourses of national belonging. This book explores the changes to native senses of place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations and opportunities - and what the authors call "affective boundaries," "livelihood reconstruction," and "trans-Himalayan modernities." It addresses changing social, political, and environmental conditions that acknowledge growing external connectivity even as it emphasizes the importance of place.
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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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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 communities, pulling them into global trends of modernization and regional discourses of national belonging. This book explores the changes to native senses of place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations and opportunities - and what the authors call "affective boundaries," "livelihood reconstruction," and "trans-Himalayan modernities." It addresses changing social, political, and environmental conditions that acknowledge growing external connectivity even as it emphasizes the importance of place.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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