Tibetan Border Worlds
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A01=Wim Van Spengen
Author_Wim Van Spengen
Category=GTM
Central Tibet
cross-border commerce
Dalai Lamas
distance
Eastern Tibet
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eq_isMigrated=2
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expedition
fieldwork Nepal Himalaya
Geographie Humaine
hill
Himalayan anthropology
Himalayan trade systems analysis
International Long Distance Traders
kathmandu
Kathmandu Airport
Kingdon Ward
long
Long Distance Trade
middle
Middle Ganga Plain
Middle Hills
Nepali Immigrants
Nomad Countries
regional economic networks
sino
Sino Tibetan Border
socio-economic transformation
structural geography
Thirteenth Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Society
Tibetan Trade
traders
Tsaidam Basin
valley
Van Spengen
Vice Versa
Western Tibet
Wider Regional Setting
Wool Trade
Young Man
younghusband
Younghusband Expedition
Product details
- ISBN 9781138985698
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The focus of the study is the Tibetan and Tibetanized border populations in the little known Himalayan high-valley of Nyishang in West Central Nepal close to the Tibetan border. There, a group of traders have greatly extended their external relations over the past century in the form of long-distance trade ventures, thereby thoroughly changing the internal conditions of socio-economic organizations in their home district. The object of the study is to establish whether larger geohistorical processes of structural change may be conceptualized in such a way as to link structuration at the level of the localized social group to the dynamics of the wider regional setting.
Wim van Spengen holds a BA and MA in Human Geography from the Free University, Amsterdam, and a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are the political and social geography of Inner Asia, particularly Tibet and the Himalayas. He is currently a member of staff at the Social-Geographical Institute, University of Amsterdam.
