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Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

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Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan - Hussain, Shafqat
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"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 how the Hunza people perceived British colonialists, Pakistani state officials, modern-day Westerners, and others, and how the local people used their remote status strategically, ensuring their own interests were served as they engaged ...

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Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan 2015, Yale University Press, New Haven

ISBN-13: 9780300205558

Hardcover