Description
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'.
Author: Vineeta Sinha
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 08/11/2023
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781805390169
ISBN10: 1805390163
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Transportation | Railroads | History
About the Author
Vineeta Sinha is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, and Editorial Board Member of Current Sociology. Her publications include A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore (NUS Press, 2007) and Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (Palgrave, 2017).