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Remoteness and Modernity : Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan / Shafqat Hussain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hussain, Shafqat, Author.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies.
- Yale Agrarian Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geography--Pakistan--Hunza.
- Historical geography.
- Physical geography--Social aspects--Pakistan--Hunza.
- Physical geography.
- Ethnicity--Pakistan--Hunza.
- Ethnicity.
- Hunza (Pakistan)--Civilization.
- Hunza (Pakistan).
- Hunza (Pakistan)--Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Mirs of Hunza
- Chronology of the Hunza State and Its Relationships with Surrounding Polities
- Introduction
- chapter 1 Lifting the Veil The Sacred and Political Geography of Hunza
- chapter 2 The Friction and Rhetoric of Distance and the Alterity of Hunza
- chapter 3 Frontier Matters Irrelevance, Romanticism, and Transformation of Hunza Society
- chapter 4 Rural Romance and Refuge from Civilization
- chapter 5 The Origin of a Nation Hunza and Postcolonial Identity
- chapter 6 On the Edge of the World
- chapter 7 Strange Strangers in the Land of Paradise
- chapter 8 Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Articulation of an Ecological Identity
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300213355
- 0300213352
- OCLC:
- 905902947
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