Remoteness and modernity : transformation and continuity in northern Pakistan /

Remoteness and modernity : transformation and continuity in northern Pakistan /

"This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. He also explores how t...

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Author / Creator: Hussain, Shafqat.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
Historical geography.
Physical geography > Social aspects > Pakistan > Hunza.
Ethnicity > Pakistan > Hunza.
Géographie historique.
Géographie physique > Aspect social > Pākistān > Hunza.
Ethnicité > Pākistān > Hunza.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Civilization
Ethnicity
Historical geography
Rural conditions
Hunza (Pakistan) > Civilization.
Hunza (Pakistan) > Rural conditions.
Pakistan > Hunza
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Table of Contents:
  • Mirs of Hunza
  • Chronology of the Hunza state and its relationships with surrounding polities
  • Lifting the veil : the sacred and political geography of Hunza
  • The friction and rhetoric of distance and the alterity of Hunza
  • Frontier matters : irrelevance, romanticism, and transformation of Hunza society
  • Rural romance and refuge from civilization
  • The origin of a nation : Hunza and postcolonial identity
  • On the edge of the world
  • Strange strangers in the land of paradise
  • Romanticism, environmentalism, and articulation of an ecological identity.

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