Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

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'.

ISBN-13: 9781805390169

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Publication Date: 08-11-2023

Pages: 346

Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Series: Asian Anthropologies #16

Vineeta Sinha is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, and Editorial Board Member of Current Sociology. Her publications include A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore (NUS Press, 2007) and Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon (Palgrave, 2017).