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Colonial Health Science Colonial Health Science
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Healthy Soil, Healthy People Healthy Soil, Healthy People
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Mountains, Isolation, and Natural Experiment Mountains, Isolation, and Natural Experiment
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Sources of Evidence Sources of Evidence
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Sociopolitical Context of the Mir’s Rule Sociopolitical Context of the Mir’s Rule
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Conclusion Conclusion
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4 Rural Romance and Refuge from Civilization
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Published:April 2015
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Abstract
This chapter explores the construction of Hunza's remoteness within the discourse of antimodernism. During the mid-twentieth century, a number of Western medical doctors and farmers visited the region, fascinated with the remarkably good health of the people of Hunza, which they attributed to the traditional methods of agriculture and food production that had flourished because of Hunza's isolation from the world. If Hunza's location earlier was seen as being on the margins of—and even beyond—civilization, it was now seen as a refuge from civilization and modern society. It was depicted as a rural utopia likened to the mythical city of Shangri-la. Aware of his diminishing power, the mir manipulated tourists'representation of his domain as remote by playing along in a hopeless effort to strengthen his position against the Pakistani state, whose own policies reinforced Hunza as remote, albeit being connected more with the mainstream society and economy.
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