Title Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces Histories of Networking and Border Crossing / edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel

Published Amsterdam, Netherland : Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Click on the following:
JSTOR Open Access

Copies

Description 1 online resource Series Asian borderlands ; 15 Asian borderlands ; 15. Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Flows and Frictions in Trans- Himalayan Spaces: An Introduction -- Prologue -- 2 Spatial History in Southern Asia: Mobility, Territoriality, and Religion -- A Long View -- 3 The Road Towards All under Heaven Cosmology: The Bazi Basin Society in West Yunnan -- 4 Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late-nineteenth Century Burma-China Borderlands -- 5 'Circulations' along the Indo-Burma Borderlands: Networks of Trade, Religion, and Identity -- 6 Flows and Fairs: The Eastern Himalayas and the British Empire -- Mobilities Today -- 7 How to Interpret a Lynching? Immigrant Flows, Ethnic Anxiety, and Sovereignty in Nagaland, Northeast India -- 8 Frictions and Opacities in the Myanmar-China Jade Trade -- 9 Multiple Identities of Young Sittwe Muslims and Becoming Rohingya -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility among the extremely varied ecologies of south-western China, Myanmar and north-eastern India, with their rugged terrain, high mountains, monsoon-fed rivers and marshy lowlands, is certainly subject to friction. But today, harsh political realities have created hard borders and fractured this trans-Himalayan terrain. However, the closely researched chapters in this book demonstrate that these borders have not prevented an abundance of movements, connections and flows. Mobility has always coexisted with friction here, but this coexistence has been unsettled, giving this space its historical shape and its contemporary dynamism. Introducing the concept of the 'corridor' as an analytical framework, this collection investigates mobility and flows in this unique socio-political landscape Notes Creative Commons License open access title Subject Culture diffusion -- East Asia Asian history. Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography. HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia. Commerce Culture diffusion Social and cultural anthropology. Asian history. Human geography. SUBJECT Silk Road. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122554 Southeast Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 Asia -- Commerce Asia, Southeastern https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001210 Subject Asia Asia -- Silk Road East Asia Southeast Asia Form Electronic book Author Cederlöf, Gunnel, editor Schendel, Willem van, editor ISBN 9048555582 9789048555581

  Permalink