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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
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Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
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Table of contents
- 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