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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Berghahn Books
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Asian Anthropologies Ser.
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "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'"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1805390783 9781805390176 1805390171 9781805390169 |