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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Saxer, Martin, 1971- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Communities -- Nepal. Nepali people -- Social networks. Transnationalism. Nepali people -- Social conditions. Human geography -- Nepal. Social change -- Nepal. Nepal -- Social conditions.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13531026

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ISBN:	9781501766886 1501766880 9781501766879 1501766872 9781501766862 9781501766893
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	"A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"--
Other form:	Print version: Saxer, Martin, 1971- Places in knots Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2022] 9781501766862

Table of 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.