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Places in Knots : Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond / Martin Saxer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saxer, Martin, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transnationalism.
- Social conditions.
- Social change.
- Human geography.
- Communities.
- Social change--Nepal.
- Human geography--Nepal.
- Nepali people--Social conditions.
- Nepali people.
- Nepali people--Social networks.
- Communities--Nepal.
- Nepal.
- Nepal--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2023
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-6686-4
- 1-5017-6687-2
- OCLC:
- 1327842962
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