Momentous Mobilities : : Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel / / Noel B. Salazar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Salazar, Noel B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Amit, Vered,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds in Motion ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; Introduction. Mapping Mobility --; Part I. Imagining Mobility --; Chapter 1 Chile: Traveling to and from the End of the World --; Chapter 2 Indonesia: Merantau and Modernity --; Chapter 3 Tanzania: The Maasai as Icons of Mobility --; Part II. Enacting Mobility --; Chapter 4 Education: Leaving to Learn --; Chapter 5 Labor: Capitalizing on Movement --; Chapter 6 Life’s “Pilgrimage”: Travel, Travail, Transformation --; Conclusion. Mobile Futures --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339363; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339363?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Noel B. Salazar.

Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.