Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

Introduction: Trans-Himalayas as Multi-State Margins Dan Smyer Yue I. TERRITORY, WORLDVIEWS, AND POWER THROUGH TIME 1. Livelihood Structure in the Southeast Asian Massif Jean Michaud 2. The Properties of Territory in Nepal's State of Transformation Sara Shneiderman 3. Trans-Himalayan Buddhist Secularities: Sino-Indian Geopolitics of Territoriality in Indo-Tibetan Interface Dan Smyer Yue 4. Buddhist Books on Trans-Himalayan Pathways: Materials and Technologies Connecting People and Ecological Environments in a Transnational Landscape Hildegard Diemberger 5. Seeking China's Back Door: On English Handkerchiefs and Global Local Markets in the Early Nineteenth Century Gunnel Cederloef II. LIVELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTIONS, FLOWS, AND TRANS-HIMALAYAN MODERNITIES 6. Contested Modernities: Place, Subjectivity, and Himalayan Dam Infrastructures Georgina Drew 7. Plurality and Plasticity of Everyday Humanitarianism in the Karen Conflict Alexander Horstmann 8. Being Modern: Livelihood Reconstruction among Land-Lost Peasants in Chenggong (Kunming) Yang Cheng 9. Tibetan Wine Production, Taste of Place, and Regional Niche Identities in Shangri-La. Brendan A. Galipeau 10. Tea and Merit-Landscape Making in the Ritual Lives of De'ang People in Western Yunnan Li Quanmin 11. In between Poppy and Rubber Fields: Experimenting a Trans-Border Livelihood among the Akha in the Northwestern Frontier of Laos Li Yunxia 12. A Fortuitous Frontier Opportunity: Cardamom Livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands Sarah Turner CONCLUSION Frictions of Change in the Trans-Himalayas Jean Michaud.