1st Edition
Mobile Lifeworlds An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas
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
Biography
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.
"The strength of the book is its engagement with major studies on the anthropology of pilgrimages and tourism in every chapter, particularly the first and concluding chapters. The author has also done an excellent job of exploring the impacts of modernization and digitization on Himalayan pilgrimages..." Smita Yadav, International Mountain Society
