Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Between the Mekong and the Indus
Redaktion: Dzüvichü, Lipokmar; Baruah, Manjeet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects has historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects connected to aspects of state making, social chan

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429537486
• Artikelnr.: 58400797

Autorenporträt

Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research work covers themes on frontiers and borderlands, transport, and labour history, including the history of commodities and circulation, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century North East Frontier of British India. Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research areas include history of space and text, translation and borderland, and history and culture of colonial resource regimes in North East India. His published works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (2012) and a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man's Land (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations/maps. List of tables. List of contributors.
Acknowledgement. Introduction: Objects of Frontiers LIPOKMAR DZÜVICHÜ 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
CEDERLÖF. Bibliography. Index