Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan by Hussain, Shafqat

Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300205558)

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Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan by Hussain, Shafqat

Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

$95.00
Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan by Hussain, Shafqat

Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating anthropological inquiry into remote areas as understood by their inhabitants and by the outsiders who encounter them

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 the Hunza people's perceptions of 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.

Author: Shafqat Hussain
ISBN-10: 0300205554
ISBN-13: 9780300205558
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2015
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.00d
By Shafqat Hussain
By Shafqat Hussain
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Shafqat Hussain is assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has worked on environmental conservation and rural development in remote regions of Pakistan, where he also runs an award-winning snow leopard conservation project. He lives in New Haven, CT.

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