Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Entangled lives

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1332962803

Responsibility statement

Joy L. K. Pachuau, Willem van Schendel

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

human-animal-plant histories of the Eastern Himalayan triangle

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. Entangled Lives explore them for a large area that has seldom been explored in academic inquiry. The 'Eastern Himalayan Triangle' includes both uplands and lowlands. The region is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots connecting India and China across Myanmar/Burma, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The 'Triangle' is treated as a multispecies site in which human histories have always been utterly intertwined with plant and animal histories. It foregrounds that history is co-created - it is always interspecies history - but that its contours are locally specific.--, Provided by publisher

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