Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

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Lipokmar Dzüvichü (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Lipokmar Dzüvichü (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Gunnel Cederloef (Gunnel Cederloef is Professor of History at Uppsala University and at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden.)

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English

Routledge India
20 March 2019

Social & cultural history; Social & cultural anthropology; Economic geography; Political geography; Regional geography

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects have historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects connected to aspects of state making, social change, everyday life, diplomacy, political and ecological worlds, capital, forms of violence, resistances, circulations, and aesthetic expressions?

This book seeks to interrogate and understand the dynamism of frontiers from the vantage point of objects such as salt, rubber, tea, guns, silk scarves, horses, and opium. It attempts to explore objects as sites of encounter, mediation, or dislocation between the social and the spatial. The book not only locates objects in the specificities of frontier spaces, but it also looks at how they are produced, circulated, and come to be intricately linked to a wide range of people, institutions, networks, and geographies. In the process, it explores how objects traverse and come to inhabit multiple historical, cultural, and geographical scales.

This book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in areas of history, social and cultural anthropology, Asian studies, frontiers and borderland studies, cultural studies, political and economic studies, and museum studies.

By: Gunnel Cederloef (Gunnel Cederloef is Professor of History at Uppsala University and at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Sweden.)
Edited by: Lipokmar Dzüvichü (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi), Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9780367205065
ISBN 10: 0367205068
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 20 March 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research work covers themes on frontiers and borderlands, transport, and labour history, including the history of commodities and circulation, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century North East Frontier of British India. Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research areas include history of space and text, translation and borderland, and history and culture of colonial resource regimes in North East India. His published works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (2012) and a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (2016).