Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Vineeta Sinha (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-016-9 (ISBN)

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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’.

Vineeta Sinha is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her publications include A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore (2005) and Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (with S.F. Alatas, 2017).

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Methodological Musings, Analytical Signposts

Chapter 1. Retelling Railway Histories: Centring Labour

Chapter 2. Constructing Colonial Railway Networks in Malaya

Chapter 3. Work and Living Spaces of Railway Labour

Chapter 4. Mapping ‘Railwaymen Temples’ in Singapore and Malaysia

Chapter 5. Sojourneying with Muṉīsvaraṉ the ‘Railway God’

Chapter 6. Railways and Religion: Negotiating Colonial and Post-colonial Modernities

Conclusion: Sedimented, Intertwined Histories

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Asian Anthropologies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-80539-016-3 / 1805390163
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-016-9 / 9781805390169
Zustand	Neuware