Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus

ISBN-13: 9780367205065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Lipokmar Dzuvichu; Manjeet Baruah

Opis

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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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