1st Edition
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands Culture, Politics, Place
By Swargajyoti Gohain
Copyright 2020
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. For nearly three centuries, Monyul was part of the Tibetan state, and the Monpas — as the communities inhabiting this region are collectively known — participated in trans-Himalayan trade... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction: Imagined Places, Chapter 1: Field, Chapter 2: Locality, Chapter 3: Connections, Chapter 4: Periphery, Chapter 5: Region, Conclusion: Corridors, Networks, and Nodes, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Swargajyoti Gohain teaches Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. She has published widely on borders, state, culture, politics, and Tibetan Buddhist communities in Northeast India and the Himalayan region.|Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.
