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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hussain, Shafqat
Titre(s) : Remoteness and modernity [Texte imprimé] : transformation and continuity in northern Pakistan / Shafqat Hussain
Publication : New Haven : Yale university press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : xvi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Collection : Agrarian studies series
Lien à la collection : Yale agrarian studies series
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index
"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 the Hunza people's perceptions of British colonialists,
Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people
used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as
they engaged with the outside world"
Sujet(s) : Hunza (peuple du Pakistan)
Géographie physique -- Société -- Hunza (Pakistan)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300205558 (hardback). - ISBN 0300205554 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45085192s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45085192
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