Temple Tracks Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
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 an...
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Berghahn Books
2023
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