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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harris, Tina
• van Schendel, Willem
• Hyslop, Gwendolyn
• Roche, Gerald
• Gerald Roche
• Gwendolyn Hyslop

Titel

Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalaya. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalaya talk borders into existence, and also how those borders speak to them and their identities. These ‘talking borders’ exist in a world where state borders are contested, and which is being irrevocably transformed by rapid social and economic change. This book offers a new perspective on this dynamic region by centring language, and in doing so, also offers new ways of thinking about how borders and language influence each other.