Title: Imagining the good life
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Culture, Culture and globalization, Economic conditions, Economic development, Social aspects, Social aspects of Economic development, Social capital (Sociology), Social conditions, Economic development, social aspects, Infrastructure (economics), Nepal, economic conditions, Asia, social conditions, Nepal, social life and customs
Places: Langtang, Langtang (Nepal), Nepal
LC classification: HC425.Z7 L365 2008