Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia

Herausgeber: Wouters, Jelle J P; Heneise, Michael T

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9780367358266
• ISBN-10: 0367358263
• Artikelnr.: 63367456

Autorenporträt

Jelle J.P. Wouters is Senior Lecturer at the Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. Previously he taught at Sikkim Central University and was a visiting faculty at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency (2018) and Nagas as a Society Against Voting and Other Essays (2020). Michael T. Heneise is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and Director of the Highland Institute. He has conducted anthropological research in the Andes of South America, and in Eastern Himalaya. He is the author of Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India (Routledge, 2018) is Co-Editor of the journals Himalaya and Highlander.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Highland Asia as a World Region
Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise Section 1: Sino
Tibetan mountains 2. The Middle Highlands of Modern China as a Historical Inter
Asian Zomia: Human
Nature Diversity in the Hengduan Mountains
Dan Smyer Yü 3. Human
nonhuman relations in the making of place in Kham
Gillian G. Tan 4. Amdo: Social landscapes and change
Eveline Washul 5. The Tibetan Frontier:From Regional Boundaries to Disputed Borders
Nadine Plachta & Galen Murton Section 2: Central Asian Mountains and Western Himalaya 6. The Uyghurs:Conceptual Highlanders of Xinjiang
Ildikó Bellér
Hann 7. Kyrgyzstan: Relating to land, nation and territory
Nienke van der Heide 8. Pamirs at the crossroads
Hermann Kreutzmann 9. Islam in the Trans
Himalayan Ecumene
Radhika Gupta Section 3: Central Himalaya 10. Forming Communities and Negotiating Power in a Highland Borderland: The Bhotiya on the Indo
Tibet Border
Subhadra Mitra Channa 11. Infrastructures of change: Development among pastoralists in Dolpo, Nepal (1990
2020)
Phurwa Gurung & Kenneth Bauer 12. Nepal Central Highland: Resistance and the state
Mukta S. Tamang 13. Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the High Himalaya: Themes, Trajectories, and Beyond
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa Section 4: Eastern Himalaya 14. Ethnic Belonging and the Reinvention of Tradition in Eastern Nepal
Martin Gaenszle 15. The Desire to be 'Primitive': The Nepalis of Darjeeling
Sikkim Himalayas and Claims for Tribal Recognition
Tanka B. Subba 16. Bhutan: History, Scholarship and Emerging Agency in the Bhutanese Narrative
Yedzin Wangmo Tobgay 17. Arunachal Pradesh: from a nonstate space to a contested state space
Zilpa Modi Section 5: Bengal
Indo
Burma highlands 18. Highlanders and lowlanders in Bangladesh: reflections on borders, connectivity and disconnection in highland Asia
Ellen Bal & Nasrin Siraj 19. Peopling the Yunnan
Bengal corridor: An ethnographic history of the Kuki
Chin
Mizo people
David Zou 20. The uplanders of Tripura: changing questions of identity
Harirar Bhattacharyya 21. Migration narratives and ritual regeneration among the Karbi and Tiwa of Highland Assam
Dharamsing Teron & Manas J. Bordoloi 22. Rethinking Ethnographies on Garo Hills
Erik de Maaker 23. Ethnic attachments and alterations among Nagas in the Indo
Myanmar borderland
G. Kanato Chophy 24. Gendering Kachinland: Challenging the gender blindness of an ethnographic area in Highland Asia
Mandy Sadan & Ja Htoi Pan Maran Section 6: Southeast Asia Massif 25. The Wa of the Burma
China borderlands: Identities and polities in the maelstrom of world
system cycles
Magnus Fiskesjö 26. Karen
Mobile Peopleswith Prophetic Movements in Myanmar & Thailand
Mikael Gravers 27. The Uplands of Northern Thailand: Language and Social Relations beyond the Muang
Nathan Badenoch 28. Animism and cosmological dynamics in Highland Laos
Guido Sprenger 29. From 'Slaves' to Indigenous Peoples: Shifting Identities in Northeastern Cambodia
Ian G. Baird 30. On both sides of the Annamese Cordilleras. The Bru of Vietnam and Laos
Gábor Vargyas 31. Remoteness and connectivity: the variegated geographies of the Yunnan
Guizhou Plateau
Tim Oakes and Zuo Zhenting 32. Ethnography in the Northern Vietnamese Highlands
Jean Michaud