Research Catalog

Title

Objects and frontiers in modern Asia : between the Mekong and the Indus / edited by Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Manjeet Baruah ; with an afterword by Gunnel Cederlöf.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Dzüvichü, Lipokmar
• Baruah, Manjeet
• Cederlöf, Gunnel

Description

xii, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 change, everyday life, diplomacy, political and ecological worlds, capital, forms of violence, resistances, circulations, and aesthetic expressions? The book seeks to interrogate and understand the dynamism of frontiers from the vantage point of objects such as salt, rubber, tea, guns, silk scarves, horses, and opium. It attempts to explore objects as sites of encounter, mediation or dislocation between the social and the spatial. The book not only locates objects in the specificities of frontier spaces, but it also looks at how they are produced, circulated and come to be intricately linked to a wide range of people, institutions, networks and geographies. In the process, it explores how objects traverse and come to inhabit multiple historical, cultural and geographical scales. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in areas of history, social and cultural anthropology, Asian studies, frontiers and borderland studies, cultural studies, political and economic studies, and museum studies"--

Subjects

• Borderlands
• Material culture
• Borderlands > Indus River Region > History
• Material culture > Indus River Region > History
• History
• Geography
• Asia > Indus River Region
• Material culture > Mekong River Region > History
• Civilization
• Borderlands > Mekong River Region > History
• Mekong River Region

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-224) and index.

Contents

Introduction : objects of frontiers / Lipokmar Dzuvichu and Manjeet Baruah -- Trans-indus salt : objects, resistance and violence in the north-west frontier of British India / Sameetah Agha -- 'Objects' of appropriations : locating material efficacies of rubber in the northeastern resource frontier of British India, 1810-1906 / Aparajita Majumdar -- Tibetan materiality versus British 'ornamentalism' : diplomacy, objects and resistance in the imperial archive / Emma Martin -- From highlands to lowlands : the Pu'er tea trading network and ethnic-group interactions in the southern Yunnan borderlands (1662-1796) / Kunbing Xiao -- Embracing the black and white gold : the shift and continuity of the core objects in the tropical Yunnan borderlands / Diana Zhidan Duan -- Guns, gifts and guerrillas : knowledge and objects during World War Two in the Indo-Myanmar (Burma) frontier / Aditya Kiran Kakati -- A spot of enlightenment : tea as a fuel for connectivity in Himalayan Buddhist cultures / Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa -- 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 Cederlof.

Call Number

JFE 19-7960

ISBN

• 9781138616073
• 1138616079
• 9780367205065
• 0367205068

LCCN

2018059417

OCLC

• 1078564674
• 1078564674

Title

Objects and frontiers in modern Asia : between the Mekong and the Indus / edited by Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Manjeet Baruah ; with an afterword by Gunnel Cederlöf.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-224) and index.

Added Author

Dzüvichü, Lipokmar, editor.

Baruah, Manjeet, editor.

Cederlöf, Gunnel, writer of afterword.

Other Form:

Ebook version : 9780429537486

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7960