Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone"

Cover......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 9
Markus Viehbeck - Introduction: Cultural History
as a History of Encounters—
A “Contact Perspective”......Page 11
Part I - Christian Mission, Educational Institutions and Identity Formation......Page 33
Jayeeta Sharma - Kalimpong as a Transcultural Missionary Contact Zone......Page 35
Andrew J. May - Our Miniature Heaven: Forming Identities at Dr Graham's Homes......Page 65
Charisma K. Lepcha - The Scottish Mission in Kalimpong and the Changing Dynamics of Lepcha Society......Page 81
Part II - Public Spheres, Public Media, and the Creation of Public Knowledge......Page 103
Clare Harris - Photography in the “Contact Zone”: Identifying Copresence and Agency in the Studios of Darjeeling......Page 105
Anna Sawerthal and Davide Torri - Imagining the Wild Man:Yeti Sightings in Folktales and Newspapers of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills......Page 131
Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang - Kalimpong: The China Connection......Page 159
Part III - Things that Connect: Economies and Material Culture......Page 185
Emma Martin - Object Lessons in Tibetan: The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Charles Bell, and Connoisseurial Networks in Darjeeling and Kalimpong, 1910–12......Page 187
Tina Harris - Wool, Toothbrushes, and Beards: Kalimpong and the “Golden Era”of Cross-Border Trade......Page 215
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa - Sacred Economies of Kalimpong: The Eastern Himalayas in the Global Production and Circulation of Buddhist Material Culture......Page 233
Part IV - Scholars, Power, and Knowledge Production......Page 253
Trine Brox and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen - Prince Peter’s Seven Years in Kalimpong: Collecting in a Contact Zone......Page 255
Markus Viehbeck - “The First Tibetan at a Western University?”—Entanglements of Scholarship, Buddhism, and Power in Kalimpong and Beyond......Page 283
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia - Looking Beyond the Land of Rice: Kalimpong and Darjeeling as Modern Buddhist Contact Zones for Sikkimese Intellectual Communities......Page 311
Epilogue......Page 329
Prem Poddar and Cheralyn Mealor - Kalimpong as Fiction or Ethnography? Gorkha/Nepali Sensitivities in the Himalayas......Page 331
List of Contributors......Page 357
Backcover......Page 362
Leere Seite......Page 361