Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Between the Mekong and the Indus

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2019

232

Dura

Inglês

9781138616073

15 a 20 dias

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List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 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 frontier of Yunnan (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 II 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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