Temple Tracks Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

• Auteur principal: Sinha, Vineeta (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Berghahn Books 2023
• Sujets: Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Trains & railways: general interest; Social Science; Emigration & Immigration; Anthropology; Cultural & Social; Transportation; Railroads; History
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Résumé

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'.

ISBN

9781805390169

Accès

Open Access