TY - BOOK AU - Wouters,Jelle J.P. AU - Heneise,Michael T. TI - Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia SN - 9781000598582 U1 - 305.80095 PY - 2022/// CY - Milton PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Highland Asia as a world region: An introduction -- Section 1 Sino-Tibetan Mountains -- Chapter 2 The Middle Highlands of modern China as a historical inter-Asian Zomia: Human-nature diversity in the Hengduan Mountains -- Chapter 3 Human-nonhuman relations in the making of place in Kham -- Chapter 4 Amdo: Social landscapes and change -- Chapter 5 The Tibetan frontier: From regional boundaries to disputed borders -- Section 2 Central Asian Mountains and Western Himalaya -- Chapter 6 The Uyghurs: Conceptual highlanders of Xinjiang -- Chapter 7 Kyrgyzstan: Relating to land, nation, and territory -- Chapter 8 Pamirs at the crossroads -- Chapter 9 Islam in the Trans-Himalayan ecumene -- Section 3 Central Himalaya -- Chapter 10 Forming communities and negotiating power in a highland borderland: The Bhotiya on the Indo-Tibet border -- Chapter 11 Infrastructures of change: Development among pastoralists in Dolpo, Nepal (1990-2020) -- Chapter 12 Nepal Central Highland: Resistance and the state -- Chapter 13 Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the High Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond -- Section 4 Eastern Himalaya -- Chapter 14 Ethnic belonging and the reinvention of tradition in Eastern Nepal -- Chapter 15 The desire to be 'primitive': The Nepalis of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas and their claims for tribal recognition -- Chapter 16 Bhutan: History, scholarship and emerging agency in the Bhutanese narrative -- Chapter 17 Arunachal Pradesh: From a nonstate space to a contested state space -- Section 5 Bengal-Indo-Burma Highlands -- Chapter 18 Highlanders and lowlanders in Bangladesh: Reflections on borders, connectivity, and disconnection in Highland Asia; Chapter 19 Peopling the Yunnan-Bengal corridor: An ethnographic history of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people -- Chapter 20 The uplanders of Tripura: Changing questions of identity -- Chapter 21 Migration narratives and ritual regeneration among the Karbi and Tiwa of Highland Assam -- Chapter 22 Rethinking ethnographies on Garo Hills -- Chapter 23 Ethnic attachments and alterations among Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar borderland -- Chapter 24 Gendering Kachinland: Challenging the gender blindness of an ethnographic area in Highland Asia -- Section 6 Southeast Asian Massif -- Chapter 25 The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands: Identities and polities in the maelstrom of world-system cycles -- Chapter 26 Karen - Mobile peoples with prophetic movements in Myanmar and Thailand -- Chapter 27 The Uplands of Northern Thailand: Language and social relations beyond the Muang -- Chapter 28 Animism and cosmological dynamics in Laos -- Chapter 29 From 'slaves' to indigenous peoples: Shifting identities in Northeastern Cambodia -- Chapter 30 On both sides of the Annamese Cordillera: The Bru of Vietnam and Laos -- Chapter 31 Remoteness and connectivity: The variegated geographies of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau -- Chapter 32 Ethnography in the Northern Vietnamese Highlands -- Index N2 - The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7047371 ER -