Beyond the silk roads : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia /

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Author / Creator:	Marsden, Magnus, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Asian connections
Subject:	Merchants, Foreign -- Social networks -- Eurasia. Business networks -- Eurasia. Afghans -- Commerce -- Eurasia. Geopolitics -- Eurasia. Business networks. Commerce. Geopolitics. Eurasia -- Commerce. Eurasia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13479922

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ISBN:	9781108974387 1108974384 9781108838313
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Open Access Unrestricted online access Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region. This title is also available as Open Access.
Other form:	Print version: Marsden, Magnus. Beyond the silk roads Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108838313

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Beyond the silk roads
'Take your help away and leave us in peace!' the anthropology of geopolitics as lived
Inter-Asian corridor of connectivity (1) : the Eurasian world
China, Russia, Ukraine and Western Europe
Inter-Asian corridor of connectivity (2) : West Asia
China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey
'Welcome to Yiwu, China international trade city' everyday life in a Chinese commercial node
Minorities, commerce and the legacy of Muslim Asia's urban cosmopolitanism : Afghanistan's Hindus and Sikhs
An alternative Eurasian economic geography : Afghanistan's role in long-distance distance trade
Afghan restaurants in inter-Asian worlds : prestige, information pooling and cross-cultural exchange in long-distance trade
Conclusion: Geopolitics, critical responsiveness and navigational agency in Eurasian connectivity.

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