Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

by Vineeta Sinha

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805390163
• ISBN13: 9781805390169
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Berghahn
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"