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oapen-20.500.12657-295222021-11-12T16:17:20Z Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands Viehbeck, Markus kalimpong transkulturality himalayas Buddhism Darjeeling India Lepcha people Tibet Tibetan people bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics. 2018-09-05 23:55 2020-02-24 09:32:17 2020-04-01T12:31:05Z 2020-04-01T12:31:05Z 2017 book 1000416 OCN: 1051780633 2365-7995/eISSN 2365-7987 9783946054573; 9783946054580; 9783946054566 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29522 eng Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 301-68-79952-2-10-20171214.pdf Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) 10.17885/heiup.301.409 10.17885/heiup.301.409 e783d080-4414-442b-9d7e-07b750c7b25d 9783946054573; 9783946054580; 9783946054566 360 Heidelberg open access
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This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.
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