Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia (Asian Anthropologies)

by Vineeta Sinha

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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’.

  • ISBN10 1805390163
  • ISBN13 9781805390169
  • Publish Date 11 August 2023
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Berghahn Books