Who owns traditional Tibetan herbal medicine? Saxer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) takes on a unique topic in this anthropological-ethnographic study of an industry in the making: the recent
For the nations on its borders, the rapid rise of China represents an opportunity—but it also brings worry, especially in areas that have long been disputed territories of contact and exchange. This b
In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not
