Mobile Lifeworlds: An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas

by Christopher A. Howard

Book Overview

Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large. Blending tourism and pilgrimage, travel across Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Northern India is often inspired and oriented by a search for authenticity, adventure and Otherness. Such valued ideals are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367877988
• ISBN13: 9780367877989
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"