Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

"The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastruct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sinha, Vineeta (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berghahn Books
Edición:1st
Colección:Asian Anthropologies
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Sumario:"The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and 'traces'"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (350 p.)
ISBN:9781805390176