Description
Book SynopsisTracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. Instead, it is the pull that tightens the knot.
Coffee-table books and trekking agencies continue to advertise the Himalayas as remote hidden valleys, and NGOs see them as fragile mountain ecosystems to be protected from global forces of destruction. Places in Knots shows how these tropes of remoteness inform development and conservation policies and thus shape the contexts in which Himalayan connections with the wider world are forged and maintained. Following Himalayan journeys between valleys in Nepal and beyond, Saxer draws a picture of globalizati
Table of Contents
Prologue: Juggling Worlds
Introduction
Part 1: Locality and Community
1. Tying Places into Knots
2. Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out
Interlude: A Son's Uncertain Ambitions
3. Binding Rules
Part 2: Pathways
4. The Business of Wayfaring
5. A Quest for Roads
Interlude: A Mound of Rice
6. The Labor of Distribution
Part 3: Interventions
Interlude: Kailash - Truly Sacred
7. Curation at Large
8. Landscapes, Dreamscapes
9. Mapping Mountains
10. Translating Ambitions
Epilogue: Navidad Bibliography
