Magnus Marsden

Beyond the Silk Roads (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108968850
• Artikelnr.: 66182486

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.