UID:
almahu_9949385496802882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, pages) :
,
illustrations, maps.
ISBN:
9780429345746
,
0429345747
,
9781000598568
,
100059856X
,
9781000598582
,
1000598586
Series Statement:
Routledge handbooks
Content:
"The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general"--
Note:
Introduction: Highland Asia as a world region / Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise -- The middle highlands of modern China as a historical inter-Asian zomia: Human-nature diversity in the Hengduan mountains / Dan Smyer Yü -- Human-nonhuman relations in the making of place in Kham / Gillian G. Tan -- Amdo: Social landscapes and change / Eveline Washul and Yumjyi -- The Tibetan frontier: From regional boundaries to disputed borders / Nadine Plachta & Galen Murton -- The Uyghurs: Conceptual highlanders of Xinjiang / Ildikó Bellér-Hann -- Kyrgyzstan: Relating to land, nation and territory / Nienke van der Heide -- Pamirs at the crossroads / Hermann Kreutzmann -- Islam in the trans-Himalayan ecumene / Radhika Gupta -- Forming communities and negotiating power in a highland borderland: The Bhotiya on the Indo-Tibet border / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- Infrastructures of change: Development among pastoralists in Dolpo, Nepal (1990-2020) / Phurwa Gurung & Kenneth Bauer -- Nepal central highland: Resistance and the state / Mukta S. Tamang -- Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the high Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa -- Ethnic belonging and the reinvention of tradition in Eastern Nepal / Martin Gaenszle -- The desire to be 'primitive': The Nepalis of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas and claims for tribal recognition / Tanka B. Subba -- Bhutan: History, scholarship and emerging agency in the Bhutanese narrative / Yedzin Wangmo Tobgay -- Arunachal Pradesh: from a nonstate space to a contested state space / Zilpa Modi -- Highlanders and lowlanders in Bangladesh: reflections on borders, connectivity and disconnection in highland Asia / Ellen Bal & Nasrin Siraj -- Peopling the Yunnan-Bengal corridor: An ethnographic history of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people / David Zou -- The uplanders of Tripura: Changing questions of identity / Harirar Bhattacharyya -- Migration narratives and ritual regeneration among the Karbi and Tiwa of highland Assam / Dharamsing Teron & Manas J. Bordoloi -- Rethinking ethnographies on Garo Hills / Erik de Maaker -- Ethnic attachments and alterations among Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar borderland / G. Kanato Chophy -- Gendering Kachinland: Challenging the gender blindness of an ethnographic area in highland Asia / Mandy Sadan & Ja Htoi Pan Maran -- The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands: Identities and polities in the maelstrom of world-system cycles / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Karen: Mobile peoples with prophetic movements in Myanmar & Thailand / Mikael Gravers -- The uplands of northern Thailand: Language and social relations beyond the Muang / Nathan Badenoch -- Animism and cosmological dynamics in highland Laos / Guido Sprenger -- From 'slaves' to Indigenous peoples: Shifting identities in northeastern Cambodia / Ian G. Baird -- On both sides of the Annamese Cordilleras: The Bru of Vietnam and Laos / Gábor Vargyas -- Remoteness and connectivity: The variegated geographies of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau / Tim Oakes and Zuo Zhenting -- Ethnography in the northern Vietnamese highlands / Jean Michaud.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Routledge handbook of highland Asia New York : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367358266
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429345746
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429345746
