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The Himalayan Border Region : trade, identity and mobility in Kumaon, India /
Drawing from extensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses on the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe of India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is located in the border triangle between India, th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Switzerland :
Springer,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Border Studies, or: Appreciating the Centrality of the Himalayan Border Region; 1.2 Who Are the Bhotiyas?; 1.3 Geographies of Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon; 1.4 Processes of Negotiation in a Transforming Socio-spatial Landscape; 1.5 Methodological Approach; 1.6 How the Book Is Organized; References; Chapter 2: Trans-Himalayan Trade in an Imperial Environment; 2.1 Approaching Territoriality and Sovereignty in the Himalayan Border Region; 2.2 Trans-Himalayan Trade Within Pre-colonial Power Constellations.
- 2.3 Moorcroft's Journey, or: The Discovery of Black Pudding2.4 Securing Traders' Loyalty in a Non-Regulation Province; 2.5 Advancing the Territorial Structuring of Imperial Space; 2.6 Claiming Territorial Sovereignty and Negotiating for the Formal Rule of Law; 2.7 Coda; References; Chapter 3: Tribal Identities and Scalar Politics in Postcolonial India; 3.1 The Notion of 'Tribe'; 3.2 Ethnic Identities and Scalar Politics; 3.3 Old Lady Jasuli; 3.4 Producing Bhot as a Scale Effect in Independent India; 3.5 Reproducing Independent India as a Scale Effect in Bhot.
- 3.6 Negotiating 'Bhotiya' as a Scalar Expression3.7 Coda; References; Chapter 4: Facets of Pastoral Mobility in a Market-Oriented Border Region; 4.1 The Bhotiyas' Seasonal Migration in the Context of Emergent Policy Initiatives; 4.2 Rituals as an Embodied Practice of Pastoral Mobility; 4.2.1 Establishing Fields of Involved Activity; 4.2.2 The Alam-Exchange; 4.2.3 Celebrating Harvest; 4.3 Dealing with Death Along Routes of Travel; 4.4 Coda; References; Chapter 5: Epilogue; References; Index.