Tying Places into Knots -- Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out -- Interlude : A Son's Uncertain Ambitions -- Binding Rules -- The Business of Wayfaring -- A Quest for Roads -- Interlude : A Mound of Rice -- The Labor of Distribution -- Interlude : Kailash-Truly Sacred -- Curation at Large -- Landscapes, Dreamscapes -- Mapping Mountains -- Translating Ambitions -- Epilogue : Navidad Bibliography.
Summary
"A study on Himalayan communities from northern Nepal, their transnational ventures, and the ties between the places they inhabit"-- Provided by publisher.