Remoteness and Modernity

“In this important work, Hussain provides a comprehensive yet fine-grained picture of the engagement of the region of Hunza with the outside world. I am an admirer of Hussain’s many articles and consider him to be an important younger voice in environmental anthropology and Himalayan ethnohistory.”—William R. Pinch, Professor of History, Wesleyan University, and Associate Editor, History and Theory

~William R. Pinch

“Remoteness and Modernity makes an original contribution regarding the politics of ‘remoteness’ in a place where they have played out in a particularly contradictory, ironic fashion.”—David McDermott Hughes, author of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Politics of Belonging

~David McDermott Hughes

“Modern fascination with distant lands is skillfully examined in this study . . . always lucid, eloquent, and very insightful, even as it is theoretically accomplished and vitally important to new directions in research on South Asia.”—K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University

~K. Sivaramakrishnan