Asia inside out : itinerant people / Eric Tagliacozzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tagliacozzo, Eric, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--Migrations.

Asians.

Human geography--Asia.

Human geography.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings on the move.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Seekers, Sojourners, and Meaningful Worlds in Motion

1. Mobility's Spatial Fix: Finding the Vietnamese "Homeland" from the Outside In

2. Mobility Assemblage and the Return of Islam in Southeast China

3. Cowry Country: Mobile Space and Imperial Territory

4. Persian Rugs in Southeast Asia: Cultural Production and Taste Making in a New Market

5. A "South" Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in Premodern East Asia's South

6. Traveling Manuscripts: Understanding Pilgrimage in Central and Eastern Islamic Lands

7. Slaves, Arms, and Political Careering in Nineteenth-Century Oman

8. The Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia

9. Deploying Theravada Buddhist Geographies in the Age of Imperialism

10. Itinerant Singers: Triangulating the Canton-Hong Kong-Macau Soundscape

11. Roast Beef versus Pigs' Trotters: Knowledge in Transit in the Work of a Chinese Food Evangelist

12. The Asian Sportscape: Hubs of Play and Flows of Contention

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

This book is volume 3 of a 3 volume set which began with Asia inside out. Changing times, and continued with Asia inside out. Connected places.

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ISBN:

0-674-24070-7

0-674-24069-3

OCLC:

1084727523