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Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area
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Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area / Emilia Roza Sulek.
ISBN
9789048536290
9048536294
Physical Description
1 online resource (326 pages)
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In English.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Caterpillar fungus, often called the Himalayan Viagra, is a subject of the latest commodity boom which changed the economic fates of Tibetan pastoralists in China. This expensive medicinal resource made a spectacular market career in East Asia after the outbreak of avian influenza and SARS. Growing demand for this 'wonder drug' created for people on the Tibetan plateau where this fungus is endemic attractive income opportunities which they never had before. Tibetan pastoralists engaged in this new 'gold rush' and turned from subsistence-oriented yak and sheep breeders living in a cash-poor environment into local economic elite. This book tells a story of successful pastoralists high on the Tibetan plateau who take advantage of the economic boom in the Chinese market to accomplish their own goals. They emerge as far more sophisticated actors than most outsiders would give credit to before reading this book.
Other formats
Print version: Sulek, Emilia Roza. Trading caterpillar fungus in Tibet. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2021
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
List of Units of Measurement and Currency
Introduction
1. Golok: People and Places
2. Digging
3. Fungus, Medicine, Commodity
4. Market and Traders
5. Market Operations
6. The Law in Action
7. Money
8. Pastoral Life and the Market
9. Spending the Money
Conclusions
Afterword: A Note on Methodology
Appendix
Tibetan Word List
Bibliography
Index
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