...This chapter views the construction of remoteness at the Hunza region from the perspective of categorization and governance of imperial territory. It uses the discourses of “friction of distance” and “rhetoric of distance” in this perspective, rendering Hunza as a remote place and inhabited...

...This epilogue draws together the various aspects of remoteness tackled in the entire book. It looks into how the existence and perceptions of remoteness and remote areas have become inherent conditions of modernity and the process of modernization. The history of Hunza shows that some of the themes...

...This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. The author examines the surprisingly diverse ways that the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders over the past century. The author also explores...

...This chapter outlines the book's anthropological inquiry into the modernity and modernization of the inhabitants in Hunza, located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Over the course of a century, Hunza has been an autonomous state, then a district and a semi-autonomous state within...

...This chapter describes the state of Hunza after the partition of India which formed the sovereignty of Pakistan in 1947. It also examines the region's representation as a marginal but remote place within Pakistani geopolitical nationalism. During this period, the region was characterized as a place...

...This chapter discusses the encounters between the Shimshali, the inhabitants of Shimshal, and the wave of tourists who visited the Hunza region during the last two decades of the twentieth century. It analyzes this encounter within the domain of global tourism and mediated by a discourse...

...This chapter looks into the construction of Hunza's remoteness in the socio-spatial domain of geographical exploration. It describes how the explorations and surveys performed in the region resulted not only in acquisition of geopolitical information, including descriptions and cataloguing...

...This chapter examines Hunza during the postconquest era which started in 1891, the year when the region completely fell to the British Empire. Using frontier settlement and administration as a socio-spatial domain, it analyzes the ways in which irrelevance and lack of urgency in the frontier...

...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...