Investigating portering relations as a locus for transcultural interaction in the Karakorum region of northern Pakistan

Auteurs :
MACDONALD, K.
BUTZ, D.

Description :
The Karakorum region of northern Pakistan has long been a contact zone between indigenous people and outsiders. Paper outlines some theoretical concepts relevant to understanding portering as a way of cross-cultural interaction : contact zone, transculturation, discursive formations, and public and hidden transcripts. Adventure tourism, european regulation of porter employment in the 19th century, and indigenous resistance to unequal labor relations are discussed. - (SLD)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Mountain research and development, issn : 0276-4741, 1998, vol. 18, n°. 4, p. 333-343, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 68 ref.

Date :
1998

Editeur :
Pays édition : Japon, Tokyo, United Nations University