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nspired by the first cultural expedition into the Western Himalayas by August Hermann Francke in 1909 which resulted in the region's denomination as 'Indian Tibet', Peter van Ham has travelled for years in the long inaccessible Indo-Tibetan border regions after they were opened to the public in the beginning of the 1990's. In secluded and remote high-altitude-valleys of breath-taking grandeur he documented some of the last refuges of Tibetan and early Indian ...
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel and globalisation have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are changing. They are presented as the twenty-first century's "new cosmopolitanisms" : flexible enough to adjust to globalisation's economic, political and cultural imperatives, yet ...