Temple Tracks Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

• Tác giả: Vineeta Sinha
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1805390169
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berghahn Books, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 374468
• Chủ đề: 1. Emigration & Immigration; 2. Social Science; 3. Migration, immigration & emigration; 4. Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; 5. Trains & railways: general interest

Tóm tắt

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'.