Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
ISBN:
9780674240698
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Seekers, Sojourners, and Meaningful Worlds in Motion / Tagliacozzo, Eric / Siu, Helen F. / Perdue, Peter C. -- 1. Mobility’s Spatial Fix: Finding the Vietnamese “Homeland” from the Outside In / Harms, Erik -- 2. Mobility Assemblage and the Return of Islam in Southeast China / Xiang, Biao / Ma, Qiang -- 3. Cowry Country: Mobile Space and Imperial Territory / Ludden, David -- 4. Persian Rugs in Southeast Asia: Cultural Production and Taste Making in a New Market / Erami, Narges -- 5. A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in Premodern East Asia’s South / Che Leung, Angela Ki -- 6. Traveling Manuscripts: Understanding Pilgrimage in Central and Eastern Islamic Lands / Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia -- 7. Slaves, Arms, and Political Careering in Nineteenth-Century Oman / Alavi, Seema -- 8. The Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia / Pickett, James -- 9. Deploying Theravada Buddhist Geographies in the Age of Imperialism / Loos, Tamara -- 10. Itinerant Singers: Triangulating the Canton–Hong Kong–Macau Soundscape / Bo Ching, May -- 11. Roast Beef versus Pigs’ Trotters: Knowledge in Transit in the Work of a Chinese Food Evangelist / Teng, Emma J. -- 12. The Asian Sportscape: Hubs of Play and Flows of Contention / Kelly, William W. -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Content:
In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings on the move
Note:
De Gruyter - Pilot project. eBook available to selected libraries only
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674240698
