The Routledge handbook of Highland Asia. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of Highland Asia; Highland Asia
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise.
• Editors: Wouters, Jelle J. P; Heneise, Michael T
• Contents: 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 and Yumjyi 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.80095; Ethnology -- Asia; Human geography -- Asia; Uplands -- Asia; Uplands -- Social aspects -- Asia; Uplands -- Economic aspects -- Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000598582; 9781000598568; 9780429345746
• Related ISBNs: 9780367358266
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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