Archive for December, 2009

The mystery of Zomia – the lawless mountain realm

Boston Globe: “In the lawless mountain realms of Asia, a Yale professor finds a case against civilization. “[…] And in southern Asia, stretching from the Vietnamese highlands up into the Tibetan plateau and as far west as Afghanistan, would be a single sprawling mountain realm that is home to more than 100 million people. This [...]

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transmontane, tramontane

traveling to, situated on, or living on the other side of mountains. archaic (esp. from the Italian point of view): foreign; barbarous. 1 another term for tramontana (a cold north wind blowing in Italy or the adjoining regions of the Adriatic and Mediterranean.) 2 archaic a person who lives on the other side of mountains [...]

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