Imagining the good life : negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya / / by Francis Khek Gee Lim.
This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the ‘good life’ as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of ‘local knowledge’, this book argues that these critiques h...
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| Superior document: | Social sciences in Asia, v. 20 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 20. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter One. Introduction: In pursuit of the good life / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Two. Zombie slayers in a ‘hidden valley / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Three. Crossing borders / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Four. Being in the world and the rituals of life / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Five. Embedding Bikās in everyday life / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Six. Romantic dreams and practical lives / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Seven. The morality of well-being / F.K.G. Lim
- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: Place, history and the good life / F.K.G. Lim
- Glossary of terms / F.K.G. Lim
- References / F.K.G. Lim
- Index / F.K.G. Lim.