Wim van Spengen

Tibetan Border Worlds

9781138985698

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of the study is the Tibetan and Tibetanized border populations in the little known Himalayan high-valley of Nyishang in West Central Nepal close to the Tibetan border. There, a group of traders have greatly extended their external relations over the past century in the form of long-distance trade ventures, thereby thoroughly changing the internal conditions of socio-economic organizations in their home district. The object of the study is to establish whether larger geohistorical processes of structural change may be conceptualized in such a way as to link structuration at the level of the localized social group to the dynamics of the wider regional setting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781138985698
• ISBN-10: 1138985694
• Artikelnr.: 44395243

Autorenporträt

Wim van Spengen holds a BA and MA in Human Geography from the Free University, Amsterdam, and a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are the political and social geography of Inner Asia, particularly Tibet and the Himalayas. He is currently a member of staff at the Social-Geographical Institute, University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: 1. Structural imagination in regional geography. 2. A short
geopolitical history of Tibet. 3. The regionality of Tibet. 4. The
geohistory of Tibetan trade. 5. The Nyishangba of Manang. 6. The emergence
of long-distance trade ventures. 7. Post-1962 developments. 8. Structured
flux and hidden vistas. Appendix I: Authors, texts and audiences. Appendix
II: Fieldwork and its burning questions. Appendix III: Customs exemption
for traders of Manang. Glossary. References. Index.