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Author Saxer, Martin, 1971- author.

Title Places in knots : remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond / Martin Saxer.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Subject Communities -- Nepal.
Nepali people -- Social networks.
Transnationalism.
Nepali people -- Social conditions.
Human geography -- Nepal.
Social change -- Nepal.
Nepal -- Social conditions.
Communauté -- Népal.
Népalais -- Réseaux sociaux.
Transnationalisme.
Népalais -- Conditions sociales.
Transnationalism
Social conditions
Social change
Human geography
Communities
Nepal
Indexed Term Social & cultural anthropology
Other Form: Print version: Saxer, Martin, 1971- Places in knots Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022] 9781501766862 (DLC) 2022023038
ISBN 9781501766886 (epub)
1501766880
9781501766879 (pdf)
1501766872
9781501766862 (hardcover)
9781501766893 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000072067239

 
    
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