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Record Nr.

UNINA9910633995003321

Autore

Saxer Martin <1971->

Titolo

Places in Knots : : Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond / / Martin Saxer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2023

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022]

©[2022]

ISBN

1-5017-6686-4

1-5017-6687-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Disciplina

307.095496

Soggetti

Transnationalism

Social conditions

Social change

Human geography

Communities

Social change - Nepal

Human geography - Nepal

Nepali people - Social conditions

Nepali people - Social networks

Communities - Nepal

Electronic books.

Nepal

Nepal Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

"A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"--