Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

by Shafqat Hussain

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300205554
• ISBN13: 9780300205558
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"