ISBN:
9783319297071
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Series Statement:
Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89541
Keywords:
Anthropology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Border Studies, or: Appreciating the Centrality of the Himalayan Border Region -- 1.2 Who Are the Bhotiyas? -- 1.3 Geographies of Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon -- 1.4 Processes of Negotiation in a Transforming Socio-spatial Landscape -- 1.5 Methodological Approach -- 1.6 How the Book Is Organized -- References -- Chapter 2: Trans-Himalayan Trade in an Imperial Environment -- 2.1 Approaching Territoriality and Sovereignty in the Himalayan Border Region -- 2.2 Trans-Himalayan Trade Within Pre-colonial Power Constellations -- 2.3 Moorcroft's Journey, or: The Discovery of Black Pudding -- 2.4 Securing Traders' Loyalty in a Non-Regulation Province -- 2.5 Advancing the Territorial Structuring of Imperial Space -- 2.6 Claiming Territorial Sovereignty and Negotiating for the Formal Rule of Law -- 2.7 Coda -- References -- Chapter 3: Tribal Identities and Scalar Politics in Postcolonial India -- 3.1 The Notion of 'Tribe' -- 3.2 Ethnic Identities and Scalar Politics -- 3.3 Old Lady Jasuli -- 3.4 Producing Bhot as a Scale Effect in Independent India -- 3.5 Reproducing Independent India as a Scale Effect in Bhot -- 3.6 Negotiating 'Bhotiya' as a Scalar Expression -- 3.7 Coda -- References -- Chapter 4: Facets of Pastoral Mobility in a Market-Oriented Border Region -- 4.1 The Bhotiyas' Seasonal Migration in the Context of Emergent Policy Initiatives -- 4.2 Rituals as an Embodied Practice of Pastoral Mobility -- 4.2.1 Establishing Fields of Involved Activity -- 4.2.2 The Alam-Exchange -- 4.2.3 Celebrating Harvest -- 4.3 Dealing with Death Along Routes of Travel -- 4.4 Coda -- References -- Chapter 5: Epilogue -- References -- Index.
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