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Geographical Diversions - Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions (Paperback)
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Geographical Diversions - Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions (Paperback)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
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Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human
geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social
and economic transformations taking place along one trade route
that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India. How might
we make connections between seemingly mundane daily life and more
abstract levels of global change? Geographical Diversions focuses
on two generations of traders who exchange goods such as sheep
wool, pang gdan aprons, and more recently, household appliances.
Exploring how traders "make places", Harris examines the creation
of geographies of trade that work against state ideas of what trade
routes should look like. She argues that the tensions between the
apparent fixity of national boundaries and the mobility of local
individuals around such restrictions are precisely how routes and
histories of trade are produced. The economic rise of China and
India has received attention from the international media, but the
effects of major new infrastructure at the intersecting borderlands
of these nationstates - in places like Tibet, northern India, and
Nepal - have rarely been covered. Geographical Diversions
challenges globalization theories based on bounded conceptions of
nation-states and offers a smaller-scale perspective that differs
from many theories of macroscale economic change.
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