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_bH296 G 2013
100 1 _aHarris, Tina,
245 1 0 _aGeographical diversions :
_bTibetan trade, global transactions /
_cTina Harris.
260 _aAthens :
_bUniversity of Georgia Press,
_c2013.
300 _a189 p. :
_bill.
490 0 _aGeographies of justice and social transformation ;
_v18
505 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
520 _a"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."--Publisher's website.
650 0 _aEthnology
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
_9216944
650 0 _aCommerce
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
_9216945
650 0 _aSheepherding
_xEconomic aspects
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
_9216946
650 0 _aHuman geography
_zChina
_zTibet Autonomous Region.
_9216947
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xBoundaries.
_9216948
651 0 _aTibet Autonomous Region (China)
_xEconomic conditions.
_9216949
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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