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Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia - Hardcover

by Vineeta Sinha
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Availability:In StockContributor:Vineeta SinhaSeries:Asian Anthropologies #16Publish date:2023-08-11Pages:346
Language:EnglishPublisher:BerghahnISBN-13:9781805390169ISBN-10:1805390163UPC:9781805390169Book Category:Social Science, TransportationBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, RailroadsBook Topic:Cultural & Social, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3911Product ID:SCVYJK4563

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'.

Language:EnglishPublisher:BerghahnISBN-13:9781805390169ISBN-10:1805390163UPC:9781805390169Book Category:Social Science, TransportationBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, RailroadsBook Topic:Cultural & Social, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3911Product ID:SCVYJK4563

Vineeta Sinha is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her publications include A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore (2005) and Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (with S.F. Alatas, 2017).


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