Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

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Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: December 2020
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9789048531714
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048531714

Subjects:: Physical Anthropology, Anthropology

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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 modernisation 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

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-10

Introduction: Trans-Himalayas as Multistate Margins
pp 11-42

I - Territory, Worldviews, and Power Through Time
pp 43-44

1 - Adjusting Livelihood Structure in the Southeast Asian Massif
pp 45-64

2 - The Properties of Territory in Nepal’s State of Transformation
pp 65-84

3 - Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Secularities: Sino-Indian Geopolitics of Territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface
pp 85-104

4 - Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways: Materials and Technologies Connecting People and Ecological Environments in a Transnational Landscape
pp 105-124

5 - Seeking China's Back Door: On English Handkerchiefs and Global Local Markets in the Early Nineteenth Century
pp 125-144

II - Livelihood Reconstructions, Flows, and Trans-Himalayan Modernities
pp 145-146

6 - Contested Modernities: Place, Subjectivity, and Himalayan Dam Infrastructures
pp 147-166

7 - Plurality and Plasticity of Everyday Humanitarianism in the Karen Conflict
pp 167-188

8 - Being Modern: Livelihood Reconstruction among Land-lost Peasants in Chenggong (Kunming)
pp 189-206

9 - Tibetan Wine Production, Taste of Place, and Regional Niche Identities in Shangri-La, China
pp 207-228

10 - Tea and Merit: Landscape Making in the Ritual Lives of the De’ang People in Western Yunnan
pp 229-242

11 - In-between Poppy and Rubber Fields: Experimenting a Transborder Livelihood among the Akha in the Northwestern Frontier of Laos
pp 243-262

12 - A Fortuitous Frontier Opportunity: Cardamom Livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
pp 263-284

Conclusion: Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Studies
pp 285-298

Index
pp 299-310

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