Remoteness and modernity : transformation and continuity in northern Pakistan / Shafqat Hussain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussain, Shafqat, author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies

Agrarian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Physical geography.

Social aspects.

Hunza (Pakistan)--Civilization.

Hunza (Pakistan).

Hunza (Pakistan)--Rural conditions.

Historical geography.

Physical geography--Social aspects--Pakistan--Hunza.

Ethnicity--Pakistan--Hunza.

Pakistan--Hunza.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

xvi, 262 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. He also explores how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mirs of Hunza

Chronology of the Hunza state and its relationships with surrounding polities

Lifting the veil : the sacred and political geography of Hunza

The friction and rhetoric of distance and the alterity of Hunza

Frontier matters : irrelevance, romanticism, and transformation of Hunza society

Rural romance and refuge from civilization

The origin of a nation : Hunza and postcolonial identity

On the edge of the world

Strange strangers in the land of paradise

Romanticism, environmentalism, and articulation of an ecological identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300205558

0300205554

OCLC:

893896522