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Temple Tracks : Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia / by Vineeta Sinha

1st edition

New York, NY : [s.n.], 2023

1 Online-Ressource (350 p)

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List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Methodological Musings, Analytical Signposts -- Chapter 1. Retelling Railway Histories: Centring Labour -- Chapter 2. Constructing Colonial Railway Networks in Malaya -- Chapter 3. Work and Living Spaces of Railway Labour -- Chapter 4. Mapping 'Railwaymen Temples' in Singapore and Malaysia -- Chapter 5. Sojourneying with Muṉīsvaraṉ the 'Railway God' -- Chapter 6. Railways and Religion: Negotiating Colonial and Post-colonial Modernities -- Conclusion: Sedimented, Intertwined Histories -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Index

Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly

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978-1-80539-078-7

978-1-80539-016-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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bisacsh: SOC007000 ; lcco: HE3325 .S56 2023

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SKA-DE-11

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'