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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands : Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities /
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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Trans-Himalayas as Multistate Margins; Dan Smyer YÃơ; I. Territory, Worldviews, and Power Through Time; 1. Adjusting Livelihood Structure in the Southeast Asian Massif; Jean Michaud; 2. The Properties of Territory in Nepalâ#x80;#x99;s State of Transformation; Sara Shneiderman; 3. Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Secularities; Sino-Indian Geopolitics of Territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface; Dan Smyer YÃơ; 4. Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways.
- Materials and Technologies Connecting People and Ecological Environments in a Transnational LandscapeHildegard Diemberger; 5. Seeking Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Back Door; On English Handkerchiefs and Global Local Markets in the Early Nineteenth Century; Gunnel CederlÃoef; II. Livelihood Reconstructions, Flows, and Trans-Himalayan Modernities; 6. Contested Modernities; Place, Subjectivity, and Himalayan Dam Infrastructures; Georgina Drew; 7. Plurality and Plasticity of Everyday Humanitarianism in the Karen Conflict; Alexander Horstmann; 8. Being Modern.
- Livelihood Reconstruction among Land-lost Peasants in Chenggong (Kunming)Yang Cheng; 9. Tibetan Wine Production, Taste of Place, and Regional Niche Identities in Shangri-La, China; Brendan A. Galipeau; 10. Tea and Merit; Landscape Making in the Ritual Lives of the Deâ#x80;#x99;ang People in Western Yunnan; Li Quanmin; 11. In-between Poppy and Rubber Fields; Experimenting a Transborder Livelihood among the Akha in the Northwestern Frontier of Laos; Li Yunxia; 12. A Fortuitous Frontier Opportunity; Cardamom Livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands; Sarah Turner; Conclusion.
- Frictions in Trans-Himalayan StudiesJean Michaud; Index.