The Himalayan Border Region
Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India
(Sprache: Englisch)
Drawing fromextensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuseson the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribeof India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area islocated...
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Drawing fromextensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuseson the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribeof India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area islocated in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR,People's Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over politicalboundaries have created multiple challenges as well as opportunities for localmountain communities.Basedon an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recentadvances in the field of border studies, the author explores how theBhotiyas have used their agency todevelopa flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assertan identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the politicalsetup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in thecontext of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining theBhotiyas' trade, identity and mobilitythisbook showshow and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive siteof political action for a variety of different actors.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Himalayan Border Region “
Introduction.-Trans-Himalayan Trade in an Imperial Environment.-Ethnic Identities and Scalar Politics in a World of National States.-Constellations of Mobility in a Market-Oriented Border Region.- Epilogue: Politics and Poetics of Central Himalayan Pastoralism.
Autoren-Porträt von Christoph Bergmann
ChristophBergmann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department ofGeography at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University (Germany). As aninterdisciplinary scholar with particular expertise in the domains of socialanthropology and geography, much of his work has sought to establish a locallyand historically contextualized understanding of stakeholder activities in HighAsia and, more recently, Sub-Saharan Africa. He adopts an actor-oriented approachto scrutinize processes of border-making and to unravel geographically andsocially uneven patterns of development, with a particular focus on theknowledge, aspirations and agendas of those considered as socio-economically orsocio-culturally marginal.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christoph Bergmann
- 2018, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016, XII, 195 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319806319
- ISBN-13: 9783319806310
Sprache:
Englisch
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