Beyond the Silk Roads
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Beyond the Silk Roads

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Beyond the Silk Roads

About this book

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Maps
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Glossary
  11. Maps
  12. Introduction: Beyond the Silk Roads
  13. 1 ‘Take Your Help Away and Leave Us in Peace!’: The Anthropology of Geopolitics as Lived
  14. 2 Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (1): The Eurasian World – China, Russia, Ukraine and Western Europe
  15. 3 Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (2): West Asia – China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey
  16. 4 ‘Welcome to Yiwu, China International Trade City!’ Everyday Life in a Chinese Commercial Node
  17. 5 Minorities, Commerce and the Legacy of Muslim Asia’s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Afghanistan’s Hindus and Sikhs
  18. 6 An Alternative Eurasian Economic Geography: Afghanistan’s Role in Long-Distance Trade
  19. 7 Afghan Restaurants in Inter-Asian Worlds: Prestige, Information Pooling and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Long-Distance Trade
  20. Conclusion: Geopolitics, Critical Responsiveness and Navigational Agency in Eurasian Connectivity
  21. Note on Fieldwork
  22. References
  23. Index