{"product_id":"9783319806310","title":"Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research: Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAdvances in Asian Human-Environmental Research: Trade, Identity and Mobility in Kumaon, India\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBergmann, Christoph\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from\nextensive archival work and long-term ethnographic research, this book focuses\non the so-called Bhotiyas, former trans-Himalayan traders and a Scheduled Tribe\nof India who reside in several high valleys of the Kumaon Himalaya. The area is\nlocated in the border triangle between India, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR,\nPeople’s Republic of China), and Nepal, where contestations over political\nboundaries have created multiple challenges as well as opportunities for local\nmountain communities.Based\non an analytical framework that is grounded in and contributes to recent\nadvances in the field of border studies, the author explores how the\nBhotiyas have used their agency todevelop\na flourishing trans-Himalayan trade under British colonial influence; to assert\nan identity and win legal recognition as a tribal community in the political\nsetup of independent India; and to innovate their pastoral mobility in the\ncontext of ongoing state and market reforms. By examining the\nBhotiyas’ trade, identity and mobilitythis\nbook showshow and why the Himalayan border region has evolved as an agentive site\nof political action for a variety of different actors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-04-22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319806310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-29707-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 195\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45382836945036,"sku":"9783319806310","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319806310.jpg?v=1776459979","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319806310","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}