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Momentous mobilities : anthropological musings on the meanings of travel / Noel B. Salazar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salazar, Noel B., 1973- author.
- Series:
- Worlds in motion (Berghahn Books) ; v. 4.
- Worlds in motion ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Anthropological aspects.
- Tourism.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.
- Contents:
- Imagining mobility
- Chile : traveling to and from the end of the world
- Indonesia : Merantau and modernity
- Tanzania : the Maasai as icons of mobility
- Enacting mobility
- Education : leaving to learn
- Labor : capitalizing on movement
- Life's "pilgrimage" : travel, travail, transformation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781785339363
- 1785339362
- OCLC:
- 1347246645
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