Places in Knots : Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

Places in Knots Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

"A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Saxer, Martin, 1971- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2023
[2022]
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Transnationalism.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Human geography.
Communities.
Social change > Nepal.
Human geography > Nepal.
Nepali people > Social conditions.
Nepali people > Social networks.
Communities > Nepal.
Nepal.
Nepal > Social conditions.
Social & cultural anthropology
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009707529306719
Table of Contents:
  • Tying Places into Knots
  • Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out
  • Interlude : A Son's Uncertain Ambitions
  • Binding Rules
  • The Business of Wayfaring
  • A Quest for Roads
  • Interlude : A Mound of Rice
  • The Labor of Distribution
  • Interlude : Kailash-Truly Sacred
  • Curation at Large
  • Landscapes, Dreamscapes
  • Mapping Mountains
  • Translating Ambitions
  • Epilogue : Navidad Bibliography.

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