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Book/Printed Material Places in knots : remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond

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Title

  • Places in knots : remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond

Summary

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

Names

  • Saxer, Martin, 1971- author

Created / Published

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

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.

Headings

  • -  Communities--Nepal
  • -  Nepali people--Social networks
  • -  Transnationalism
  • -  Nepali people--Social conditions
  • -  Human geography--Nepal
  • -  Social change--Nepal
  • -  Nepal--Social conditions

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HN670.9

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022023039

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Saxer, Martin, Author. Places in knots: remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 2022] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2022023039/.

APA citation style:

Saxer, M. (2022) Places in knots: remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2022023039/.

MLA citation style:

Saxer, Martin, Author. Places in knots: remoteness and connectivity in the Himalayas and beyond. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 2022] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2022023039/>.