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Entangled Lives
Joy L. K. Pachuau
Willem van Schendel
其他書名
Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2022-11-10
主題
History / General
History / Asia / General
History / Social History
Nature / General
Nature / Ecology
Science / Life Sciences / Ecology
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
1009215477
9781009215473
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=L0t6EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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. The authors explore them for a large area that historians seldom choose as their unit of inquiry. The "Eastern Himalayan Triangle" (elaborated further in the abstract that follows) includes both uplands and lowlands and is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots, and connects India and China across Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan. They treat the "Triangle" as a multispecies site in which human histories have always been utterly intertwined with plant and animal histories. The main objective is to foreground that history is co-created - it is always interspecies history - but that its contours are locally specific. The book presents a wealth of environmental specificities in which human history is embedded. The multispecies complexities encountered require the authors to recalibrate the conventions of academic history-writing and they do so by advancing new spatial and temporal imaginations - pushing beyond both methodological nationalism and traditional periodisation - and carefully considering local life-worlds and multispecies cosmologies"--