Abstract
This chapter focuses on the interplay among the different contexts, levels, and scales that are involved in the creation and maintenance of Kham, a region of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. It presents a critical appraisal of scholarship on Kham over the past half-century that has contributed exegeses of native texts, analyses of various political manoeuvres, and descriptions of direct external experiences of the region. It then turns to the relationships, specifically human-nonhuman relationships, that are brought to the fore and enacted in order to continually recreate and maintain Kham. In doing so, it considers how ‘place’ for Tibetans marks a particular kind of experience and relationship and that Kham may be aptly thought of as a collection of such places held together in a vision of connections that encompass horizontal territorial connections and vertical tantric lineages.
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