Entangled lives human-animal-plant histories of the Eastern Himalayan triangle Joy L. K. Pachuau, Willem van Schendel

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pachuau, Joy, 1969- author.
• Schendel, Willem van, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human ecology--Himalaya Mountains Region.
• Animal-plant relationships--Himalaya Mountains Region.
• Ethnoecology--Himalaya Mountains Region.
• Himalaya Mountains--History.
• Himalaya Mountains--Environmental conditions.
• Animal-plant relationships.
• Ecology.
• Ethnoecology.
• Human ecology.
• Himalaya Mountains.
• Himalaya Mountains Region.

Genre:

• History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2022

Summary:

"This book considers three questions about understanding the past. How can we rethink human histories by including animals and plants? How can we overcome nationally territorialised narratives? And how can we balance academic history-writing and indigenous understandings of history? This is a tentative foray into the connections between these questions. The authors explore them for a large area that historians seldom choose as their unit of inquiry. The "Eastern Himalayan Triangle" (elaborated further in the abstract that follows) includes both uplands and lowlands and is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots, and connects India and China across Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan. They treat the "Triangle" as a multispecies site in which human histories have always been utterly intertwined with plant and animal histories. The main objective is to foreground that history is co-created - it is always interspecies history - but that its contours are locally specific. The book presents a wealth of environmental specificities in which human history is embedded. The multispecies complexities encountered require the authors to recalibrate the conventions of academic history-writing and they do so by advancing new spatial and temporal imaginations - pushing beyond both methodological nationalism and traditional periodisation - and carefully considering local life-worlds and multispecies cosmologies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

• Part I The Deep Past
• 1. An Epic Crash
• 2. Human Beginnings
• 3. Changing the Environment
• 4. Livelihoods
• Part II Cosmologies
• 5. Stories of Human Origins
• 6. Human-Animal Histories
• 7. Human-Plant Histories
• Part III More-Than-Human Histories
• 8. Cultural Geographies
• 9. Exploiting Natural Resources
• 10. Dealing with Environmental Decay
• 11. The Elephant Strikes Back

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2022)

Other Format:

Print version Pachuau, Joy, 1969- Entangled lives

ISBN:

• 9781009215480
• 1009215485
• 1009276697
• 9781009276696

OCLC:

1332962803

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license