Imagining the good life: negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Tables ................................................................................. ix
List of Maps and Photographs ......................................................... xi
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xiii
Chapter One Introduction: In Pursuit of the Good Life ....... 1
Modern Langtang ................................................................... 8
The Experience of Place ........................................................ 14
Who Are the Langtangpa? ..................................................... 18
The Setting ............................................................................. 21
Book Outline ........................................................................... 25
Chapter Two Zombie Slayers in a Hidden Valley ............... 31
Sacred Geography: Langtang as Beyul ( Hidden Land ) ........ 33
The Mukhiya Clans .................................................................. 38
Zombie Slayers in Langtang:
Ascendancy of the Domar Clan ........................................ 40
Ideology Emplaced: Land, Ritual, Power .............................. 45
Nara ........................................................................................ 52
Conclusion .............................................................................. 57
Chapter Three Crossing Borders ............................................ 59
Crossing Borders (I): Langtang People on the Move ............ 63
Working the Land ................................................................... 69
Crossing Borders (II): Development and Foreign Aid ........... 75
Establishing the National Park:
Putting the Langtangpa in Place ........................................ 80
Chapter Four Being in the World and the Rituals of Life .... 89
Avoiding dugpu, Attaining kipu ................................................ 90
Gender Complementarity:
dgra lha and gyang ................................................................ 93
Tshe sgrub: Enhancing Life .................................................... 100
Karma and the Wheel of Life ............................................... 103
Nyungne (bsmyung gnas) ........................................................... 105
This life, Next life ................................................................ 108
Mil CONTENTS
Chapter Five Embedding Bikas in Everyday Life ................... 113
Emergence of a New Materiality ........................................... 114
Tourism for National Development ....................................... 117
Design of Hotels ..................................................................... 122
Articulation of Internal Design Elements .............................. 124
Hotel, Status and Personal Identity ....................................... 124
Hotels as Political Sites ........................................................... 131
Conclusion .............................................................................. 135
Chapter Six Romantic Dreams and Practical Lives ............... 137
Spirituality and Corruption .................................................... 137
Mutual Gazing and Imagining Practices ............................... 140
Living in an Aestheticised Landscape .................................... 144
The Foreignscapes: The Langtangpa s
Counter-gaze ....................................................................... 157
Of Reverie and Emplacement ...................................................... 165
Conclusion .............................................................................. 167
Chapter Seven The Morality of Well-being .......................... 169
Dippa (sgrib pa): Explaining Misfortune in Langtang .............. 170
The Case of Diminishing Potatoes, Or, Why Good Social
Relations Are Important ..................................................... 178
Mikha: Exorcism of Malicious Gossip .................................... 188
Cooperative Ventures ............................................................. 191
Desperately Seeking Synthesis ................................................ 193
Chapter Eight Conclusion: Place, History and the
Good Life ................................................................................... 195
Spatial Experience and Social Relations ................................ 196
The Good Life and the Practice of Development ................ 202
Glossary of Terms .......................................................................... 213
References ....................................................................................... 219
Index ............................................................................................. 229
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CONTENTS
List of Tables . ix
List of Maps and Photographs . xi
Acknowledgements . xiii
Chapter One Introduction: In Pursuit of the Good Life . 1
Modern Langtang . 8
The Experience of Place . 14
Who Are the Langtangpa? . 18
The Setting . 21
Book Outline . 25
Chapter Two Zombie Slayers in a'Hidden Valley' . 31
Sacred Geography: Langtang as Beyul ('Hidden Land') . 33
The Mukhiya Clans . 38
Zombie Slayers in Langtang:
Ascendancy of the Domar Clan . 40
Ideology Emplaced: Land, Ritual, Power . 45
Nara . 52
Conclusion . 57
Chapter Three Crossing Borders . 59
Crossing Borders (I): Langtang People on the Move . 63
Working the Land . 69
Crossing Borders (II): Development and Foreign Aid . 75
Establishing the National Park:
Putting the Langtangpa in Place . 80
Chapter Four Being in the World and the Rituals of Life . 89
Avoiding dugpu, Attaining kipu . 90
Gender Complementarity:
dgra lha and gyang . 93
Tshe sgrub: 'Enhancing Life' . 100
Karma and the Wheel of Life . 103
Nyungne (bsmyung gnas) . 105
This life, Next life . 108
Mil CONTENTS
Chapter Five Embedding Bikas in Everyday Life . 113
Emergence of a New Materiality . 114
Tourism for National Development . 117
Design of Hotels . 122
Articulation of Internal Design Elements . 124
Hotel, Status and Personal Identity . 124
Hotels as Political Sites . 131
Conclusion . 135
Chapter Six Romantic Dreams and Practical Lives . 137
Spirituality and Corruption . 137
Mutual Gazing and Imagining Practices . 140
Living in an Aestheticised Landscape . 144
The Foreignscapes: The Langtangpa's
Counter-gaze . 157
Of Reverie and Emplacement . 165
Conclusion . 167
Chapter Seven The Morality of Well-being . 169
Dippa (sgrib pa): Explaining Misfortune in Langtang . 170
The Case of Diminishing Potatoes, Or, Why Good Social
Relations Are Important . 178
Mikha: Exorcism of Malicious Gossip . 188
Cooperative Ventures . 191
Desperately Seeking Synthesis . 193
Chapter Eight Conclusion: Place, History and the
Good Life . 195
Spatial Experience and Social Relations . 196
The Good Life and the Practice of Development . 202
Glossary of Terms . 213
References . 219
Index . 229 |
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