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 infrastructure an...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York Oxford
Berghahn Books
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Asian Anthropologies
16 |
| Further subjects: | B
Transport Studies
B Refugee and Migration Studies B Emigration & Immigration / SOCIAL SCIENCE B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social B Anthropology of religion |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| 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-Ressource (350 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80539-078-7 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781805390787 |
