Temple Tracks
Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia
Author(s)
Sinha, Vineeta
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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'.
Keywords
Social Science; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social; Transportation; Railroads; HistoryDOI
10.3167/9781805390169ISBN
9781805390169, 9781805390787Publisher
Berghahn BooksPublisher website
https://berghahnbooks.com/Publication date and place
2023Grantor
Imprint
Berghahn BooksClassification
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Social and cultural anthropology
Trains and railways: general interest