Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities
Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities
Buch
- Bhutan, Sikkim and the Mon Region
- Herausgeber: Anna Balikci Denjongpa, Miguel Álvarez Ortega, Françoise Pommaret, Seiji Kumagai
- Trans Pacific Press, 09/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781920850234
- Bestellnummer: 11906158
- Umfang: 544 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Lying in the southeastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim and the Mon region show a rich and complex development as a contact area of intricate multi-layered cultural tapestries. The area is a fascinating crossroads between, and is therefore influenced by, Central Tibet to its north and Nepal and India to its south. These three regions are not only neighbors that once shared a blurred contact zone but also entities that present both clear sociohistorical similarities and dissimilarities. Even if all three territories developed culturally in multi-ethnic contexts in which Tibetan groups and their Mahayana-Tantric form of Buddhism played a clear central role, their singular identities and political configuration and history are notably divergent, as exemplified by their relationships with the British empire and experience of Nepalese migration. This three-part collective volume, covering Religion and Culture (I), Society and Education (II) and Law and Politics (III), aims to provide a forum for the latest scholarship on the southeast Himalayas, adopting a relational and comparative approach, and exploring how each region deals with a wide range of cultural and identity issues in the pressing context of modernization and globalization.Traditional Neighbors, Different Modernities
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