The power of movement

Philippe Sagant’s research demonstrated the importance of mobility in building Himalayan societies and cultures. He understood migration as shaping village relations across time and space, and in this way, he historicized eastern Himalayan communities as participants in new global modernities. This...

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Main Author: Catherine Warner
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2021-01-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/14138
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description Philippe Sagant’s research demonstrated the importance of mobility in building Himalayan societies and cultures. He understood migration as shaping village relations across time and space, and in this way, he historicized eastern Himalayan communities as participants in new global modernities. This article draws upon Sagant’s work to offer an overview of migration in Eastern Nepal and Darjeeling in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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