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Author Smyer YĆ¼, Dan

Title Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor Geographies Protean Edging of Habitats and Empires
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (275 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Perpendicular geospatiality of corridors and borderlands: an introduction -- Part I Conceptual thoughts -- 1 Framing spaces between India and China -- 2 Environmental edging of empires, chiefdoms, and states: corridors as transregions -- 3 A conceptualization of Tibetan-Myanmar corridors -- Part II Human-nonhuman corridors and commons -- 4 Understanding borderlands through elephant corridors in the Yunnan-Myanmar-Bengal landscape
5 Rivers of mobility: multi-ethnic societies and ecological commons in a fluvial Asia -- 6 Borderlines, livelihood, and ethnicity in the Yunnan-Myanmar borderlands: a Rohingya jade trader's narratives -- Part III Imperial frontiers, ethnopolitics, and borderland livelihoods -- 7 Ethnonationalism in Northeast India: a case study of the ban on Hindi movies and songs in Manipur -- 8 Constructing native chieftains as an imperial frontier institution: endogamy and dowry land exchange among the Shan-Dai chieftains in Yunnan-Burma borderland since the thirteenth century
9 Beyond taste: the flow of De'ang's fermented tea in the Yunnan-Myanmar borderlands -- 10 Leaving the mountain: wage laborers and gendered yearnings in a Northwest Lao border town -- Conclusion: corridor geographies -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Culture diffusion -- East Asia
Culture diffusion
East Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Dean, Karin
ISBN 9781000458428
1000458423