Magnus Marsden

Beyond the Silk Roads

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities thrive in geopolitically fraught contexts, analyses the structure of the networks they form, and explores the dynamics of the commercial hubs important to their activities. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108978774
• ISBN-10: 1108978770
• Artikelnr.: 73432348

Autorenporträt

Magnus Marsden is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Sussex Asia Centre in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prize-winning Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier (2005), Fragments of the Afghan Frontier (with B. D. Hopkins, 2012), and Trading Worlds (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Beyond the silk roads; 1. 'Take your help away and leave us
in peace!' The anthropology of geopolitics as lived; 2. Inter-Asian
corridor of connectivity (1): The Eurasian World - China, Russia, Ukraine
and Western Europe; 3. Inter-Asian corridor of connectivity (2): West Asia
- China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey; 4. Welcome to Yiwu, China
international trade city!' everyday life in a Chinese commercial node; 5.
Minorities, commerce and the legacy of Muslim Asia's urban cosmopolitanism:
Afghanistan's Hindus and Sikhs; 6. An alternative Eurasian economic
geography: Afghanistan's role in long-distance trade; 7. Afghan restaurants
in Inter-Asian Worlds: Prestige, information pooling and cross-cultural
exchange in long-distance trade; Conclusion. Geopolitics, critical
responsiveness and navigational agency in Eurasian connectivity.