Jellyfishing in the Postcolonial Nation State: Baltistan through the Zomia Lens.
The Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 divided the western Himalayan region of Baltistan in two parts. Being subject to internal colonization and nation-making by the two postcolonial nation states, the Balti community, like many other communities in the Himalayan region, has recently voiced de...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 57 - 92 |
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Nanzan University
2021
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