Remoteness and Modernity Remoteness and Modernity

Remoteness and Modernity

Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2015
April 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
280
Pages
PUBLISHER
Yale University Press
SELLER
Yale University
SIZE
2
MB

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