Christopher A. Howard

Mobile Lifeworlds (eBook, PDF)

An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the imaginaries and ideals of western travellers, especially those of sublime nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region and the wider discourse of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317221777
• Artikelnr.: 45474753

Autorenporträt

Christopher A. Howard is Visiting Lecturer in the College of General Studies at Boston University. Drawing on social theory and interpretative methodologies, his research focuses on the changing relations between humans, environment and technology. His recent publications cover topics ranging from neoliberalism in the Pacific Rim to being online, and the urban/rural divide.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1 Questions of Travel: Meanings, Experiences and Change in
Tourism and Pilgrimage. 2 Magic Mountains: The Himalayas as a Symbolic
Landscape. 3 Methodological Wayfinding: Phenomenology, Mobile Ethnography
and Serendipity. 4 Lost Horizons: On the Interplay of Virtual, imaginary
and Corporeal Mobilities. 5 To the Village Where No Roads Go: Searching for
Authentic Nature-Culture in Himalayas. 6 Travailing: Boundary Crossing and
Bodily Disruption in Nepal and India. 7 Being Where? Mobile Inter-Placing
in the Age of Digital Ge-Stell. Conclusion