Entangled Lives

Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvJoy L. K. Pachuau,Willem van Schendel,India) Pachuau, Joy L. K. (Jawaharlal Nehru University,Netherlands) Schendel, Willem van (University of Amsterdam,Willem Van Schendel,Joy L K Pachuau

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-10
Mått161 x 237 x 26 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor315
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009215473

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Joy L. K. Pachuau is a historian and anthropologist with an interest in Northeast India, gender studies, and the history of Christianity in Asia. Her recent works include Landscape, Culture and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India (2019, ed. with Neeladri Bhattacharya), Christianity in India: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge (2016, ed. with Tanika Sarkar et al.). She was awarded the Sneh Mahajan Prize for the best book in modern Indian history for 2012–14 by the Indian History Congress for her monograph Being Mizo, Identity and Belonging in Northeast India, 2014. Willem van Schendel works in the fields of history, anthropology, and sociology of Asia. Recent books include: The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India (2015, with Joy L.K. Pachuau); A History of Bangladesh (new edition, 2020); and Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing (2022, ed. with Gunnel Cederlöf). His publications can be found at uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

List of Maps; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Deep Past: 1. An Epic Crash; 2. Human Beginnings; 3. Changing the Environment; 4. Livelihoods; Part II. Cosmologies: 5. Stories of Human Origins; 6. Human-animal Histories; 7. Human-plant Histories; Part III. More-Than-Human Histories: 8. Cultural geographies; 9. Exploiting Natural Resources; 10. Dealing with Environmental Decay; 11. The Elephant Strikes Back; Conclusion; Bibliography; Copyrights and Sources; Index.

'Entangled Lives builds on the fundamental insight that history is always interspecies history. With elegance and in-depth knowledge, Joy Pachuau and Willem van Schendel outline a new mode of writing history where the lives of animals and plants matter and where scholars have to rethink taken for granted geographies and temporalities. This is a highly ambitious project that takes us from the movement of tectonic plates to indigenous cosmologies in the region that they aptly name the 'Eastern Himalayan Triangle'. It is a marvellous read, a book full of telling accounts of human care for elephants, mithun, bamboo, areca nut and other living beings. Through these entangled histories of co-becoming, we face the larger question of how to survive on a damaged planet.' Bengt G. Karlsson, Stockholm University, Sweden