Tibetan Border Worlds: A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780710305923)

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.

Author: Wim Van Spengen
ISBN-10: 0710305923
ISBN-13: 9780710305923
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/12/1999
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.68w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 960
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 30