Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Between the Mekong and the Indus

Dzuevichue, Lipokmar; Baruah, Manjeet

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2019

232

Dura

Inglês

9781138616073

15 a 20 dias

620

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List of illustrations/maps. List of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgement. Introduction: Objects of Frontiers LIPOKMAR DZUEVICHUE AND MANJEET BARUAH Part I: Commodities, resource frontiers and state making 1 Trans-Indus Salt: Objects, Resistance and Violence in the North-West Frontier of British India SAMEETAH AGHA 2 'Objects' of Appropriations: Locating Material Efficacies of Rubber in the Northeastern Resource Frontier of British India, 1810-1906 APARAJITA MAJUMDAR 3 Tibetan Materiality versus British 'Ornamentalism': Diplomacy, Objects and Resistance in the Imperial Archive EMMA MARTIN Part II: Networks, things and violence 4 From Highlands to Lowlands: The Pu'er Tea Trading Network and Ethnic-Group Interactions in the Southern Yunnan Borderlands (1662-1796) KUNBING XIAO 5 Embracing the Black and White Gold: The Shift and Continuity of the Core Objects in the Tropical Yunnan Borderlands DIANA ZHIDAN DUAN 6 Guns, Gifts and Guerrillas: Knowledge and Objects during World War Two in the Indo-Myanmar (Burma) Frontier ADITYA KIRAN KAKATI Part III: Regions, cultures and connections 7 A Spot of Enlightenment: Tea as a Fuel for Connectivity in Himalayan Buddhist Cultures KALZANG DORJEE BHUTIA and AMY HOLMES-TAGCHUNGDARPA 8 Objects in the Border Poetry of North East India and Southwest China MARK BENDER Afterword: The Flow of Objects at the Political Edges: A Postscript GUNNEL CEDERLOEF. Bibliography. Index
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Lao People's Democratic Republic;frontiers / borders / Empire building / building frontiers / nineteenth century / South Asia / Mekong / Indus / Value of objects / cultural history / resistence / rebellion / violent histories;Long Horns;Holy Mountains;Hill Men;Panchen Lama;Pan-chen Lama;Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture;Lushai Hills;Tea Horse Road;9th Panchen Lama;Guru Rinpoche;Chin Hills;Holy Woods;Northeast India;Han Merchants;British Ornamentalism;Resource Frontier;Rubber Trees;Rubber Cultivation;Ficus Elastica;Body Odour;Central Qing Government