03654namaa2200481uu 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016006001900033007001500052008004100067020001800108020001800126020001800144020001800162020001800180024003100198040001700229041000800246042000700254072001600261072001700277720002900294245004000323260002700363300003100390336002600421337002600447338003600473506005100509520218700560540006302747546001202810650002702822650004502849653001902894653002102913720002902934720002902963720002902992793001803021856011603039999001703155doab90569oapen20260305123950.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan220803s2023    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9780367358266  a9780429345746  a9780429345746  a9781000598568  a97810322826717 a10.4324/97804293457462doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aGTM2bicssc 7aJBSL2bicssc1 aWouters, Jelle J.P.4edt00aRoutledge Handbook of Highland Asia  bTaylor & Francisc2023  a1 online resource (484 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aThe 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. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aEthnic studies2bicssc 7aRegional / International studies2bicssc  aEthnic studies  aRegional studies1 aHeneise, Michael T.4edt1 aHeneise, Michael T.4oth1 aWouters, Jelle J.P.4oth0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/9056970zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c93019d93019