Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Series |
Yale agrarian studies series
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Yale agrarian studies.
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Summary |
"This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. He also explores how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged with the outside world"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Mirs of Hunza -- Chronology of the Hunza state and its relationships with surrounding polities -- Lifting the veil : the sacred and political geography of Hunza -- The friction and rhetoric of distance and the alterity of Hunza -- Frontier matters : irrelevance, romanticism, and transformation of Hunza society -- Rural romance and refuge from civilization -- The origin of a nation : Hunza and postcolonial identity -- On the edge of the world -- Strange strangers in the land of paradise -- Romanticism, environmentalism, and articulation of an ecological identity. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Hunza (Pakistan) -- Civilization.
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Hunza (Pakistan) -- Rural conditions.
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Historical geography.
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Historical geography. |
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Physical geography -- Social aspects -- Pakistan -- Hunza.
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Physical geography. |
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Social aspects. |
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Pakistan. |
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Pakistan -- Hunza. |
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Ethnicity -- Pakistan -- Hunza.
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Ethnicity. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hussain, Shafqat. Remoteness and modernity 9780300205558 (DLC) 2014036350 (OCoLC)893896522 |
ISBN |
9780300213355 (electronic book) |
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0300213352 (electronic book) |
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9780300205558 (print) |
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0300205554 |
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