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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"--

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Main Author: Saxer, Martin, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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.
Electronic books.
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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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