Imagining the good life
Subtitle: negotiating culture and development in Nepal Himalaya
By: by Francis Khek Gee Lim.
Series: Social sciences in Asia -- v. 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789004167872
Subjects: Economic development -- Social aspects -- Nepal -- Langtang; Culture -- Nepal -- Langtang; Culture and globalization -- Nepal -- Langtang; Social capital (Sociology) -- Nepal -- Langtang; Langtang (Nepal) -- Economic conditions; Langtang (Nepal) -- Social conditions
Description: "This original book 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 have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural perspective. Based on ethnographic research among an ethnic Tibetan community in the Nepal Himalaya, the book eloquently illustrates how the pursuit of the good life is inextricably tied to space and history, and demonstrates the relevance of ethno-historically generated conceptions of the 'good life' to the practice of development."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.