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Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet : When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area /

Caterpillar fungus, often called the Himalayan Viagra, is a subject of the latest commodity boom which changed the economic fates of Tibetan pastoralists in China. This expensive medicinal resource made a spectacular market career in East Asia after the outbreak of avian influenza and SARS. Growing...

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Autor principal: Sulek, Emilia Roza (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Transliteration
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Units of Measurement and Currency
  • Introduction
  • 1. Golok: People and Places
  • 2. Digging
  • 3. Fungus, Medicine, Commodity
  • 4. Market and Traders
  • 5. Market Operations
  • 6. The Law in Action
  • 7. Money
  • 8. Pastoral Life and the Market
  • 9. Spending the Money
  • Conclusions
  • Afterword: A Note on Methodology
  • Appendix
  • Tibetan Word List
  • Bibliography
  • Index