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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of cartography, but focuses on the interface between cartography and cosmography, which were, in turn, shaped by imperial power and geographical knowledge. This approach offers a high-altitude view of this Asian borderland as the imperial frontier of both the Mughals and the British, and the national fringe...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1033–1049.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Ann Maxwell Hill Abstract Located on the high altitude slopes in China's mountainous southwestern hinterlands, the Nuosu (Yi) have long been characterized by ethnologists in China as a slave society. In this essay I explore the appropriateness of the label with reference to the distinction...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 February 2022
...). Gordon , Avery . 2008 . Ghostly Matters: Haunting the Sociological Imagination . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Han , Ju Hui Judy . 2020 . “ High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits .” In Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures , edited...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 66–76.
Published: 01 November 1942
... mountainous, with the higher peaks in Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Philippines extending to from 5,000 to 11,150 feet. The highest peaks in the entire region are Mount Kinabalu in British North 66 THE VEGETATION OF MALAYSIA 67 Borneo, attaining an altitude 13,400 feet and Mount Wilhelmina in the Snow Range...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 795–796.
Published: 01 August 2004
... interest lies in the peculiar adaptation of these populations to high altitudes. The Kirghiz were living at altitudes above thirteen thousand feet not, however, as their rst preference, as they had previously lived at lower altitudes in the central Asian region of Turkistan immediately to the north...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1049–1051.
Published: 01 November 1996
... that includes the middle altitude area and ethnic groups other than the 1050 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES immediate 3,000 Sherpas that are the focus of this book. Also included in his current work are tools and techniques in field research that became popular in the 1980s, such as the use of computer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 423–430.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 altitude frontiers history Southeast Asia James C. Scott Zomia It is difficult to expound in any pithy fashion on the imprint that James C. Scott's work has had on writing history in the orbit of Asia. Where to start? From The Moral Economy of the Peasant all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 February 1987
... is divided into three zones of habitation, each occupied by a distinctive set of ethnic groups.8 These include a northern, high-altitude zone peopled by groups of Tibetan language and culture; a middle-altitude zone inhabited by, as Gerald Berreman puts it, "the distinctively Nepalese peoples who combine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (4): 710–711.
Published: 01 August 1976
... people." He then goes on to speak of a "dominant hill culture" with which the government has sought to "Nepalize" the tarai. In fact, there is no single hill culture, and certainly not one that would encompass such diverse groups as, for example, Sherpas and Chetris. The high-altitude dwellers, often...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 February 2022
... labor's defensive retreat from high-profile militant collective action to high-stakes, high-altitude occupations drawing on “drama, ritual, and suffering to challenge the degradation of their lives.” What becomes especially important and difficult are the solidarities created on the ground with the mass...
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 1. The Patkai. Map by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and Tina Bone. Colored areas represent mountainous and hilly regions. The darker the color, the higher the altitude.
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 2. The people of the Patkai. Map by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and Tina Bone. Colored areas represent mountainous and hilly regions. The darker the color, the higher the altitude.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 73–80.
Published: 01 November 1981
... on tribal groups that had adapted to high altitudes in central and southwestern Asia, and these groups are the only members of their tribes living outside Chinese or Soviet control. Shahrani's Afghan citizenship allowed him relatively easy access to these people. Since Shahrani is an Uzbek, his native...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 590–591.
Published: 01 August 2022
... legislative changes to improve the social, legal, and political environments for the marginalized. These chapters take readers to risky places such as high altitudes, scenes of suicides and street protesting, and the Queer Culture Festival in Seoul to witness rights claiming on the ground in Korea. Together...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 252–254.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the challenge pf producing a map that adequately conveys ethnic and linguistic diversity, especially for the mid-hill regions of the Nepal Himalayas, where groups are often interspersed or separated by gradients in altitude that have not been well portrayed to date (if they can at all in light of slippery...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 17 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 November 1957
... harvest is possible. The surface relief is extremely capricious, the mountains and rugged hills (comprising over sixty per cent of the surface) being grouped in confused ridges rising to over 10,000 feet in places, the higher altitudes being often swathed in mist and fog. Prominent features...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 455–457.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., showing how the design of a remote, high-altitude temple complex at Pundukeshwar is linked directly to temples in Karnataka, probably reflecting “the strategic martial alliances and extravagant political ambitions of their patrons, the Cālukyas” (p. 115). This interpretation, put forward with rigorous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 470–472.
Published: 01 May 2021
... deconstructs the stereotype that pastoralists are incompetent and naive when it comes to trade and their own economic interests. The first chapter sets the scene for the high-altitude pastoralist township of Domkhok in the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, where the bulk of Sulek's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 752–753.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of high Asia" (p. 18). Their annual thaw feeds the rivers of Asia, bringing to the rain-fed lowlands the additional waters to irrigate vast civilizations. In the higher altitudes, however, or in the ranges' rain shadow, precipitation is insufficient to support rain-fed agriculture. Over the centuries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1048–1049.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., examining a north-south transect that includes the middle altitude area and ethnic groups other than the Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 The Idea of Rajasthan: Explorations in Regional Identity . Vol. 1, Constructions and Vol. 2: Institutions . Edited by Karine...
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