Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia - Between the Mekong and the Indus (Hardcover)

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 have 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? This 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Lipokmar Dzuvichu • Manjeet Baruah
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-61607-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Economic geography Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Political geography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-138-61607-9
Barcode:	9781138616073

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