Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety And Railway Construction In Asia (Asian Anthropologies, 16)

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'.

• | Author: Vineeta Sinha
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 11, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 350 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1805390163
• | ISBN-13: 9781805390169